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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where will Becca stay for a night while in Oswego?

2. What does Becca rent in Chapter 20?

3. According to Magda, what happened to a teacher who gave graphic details about the concentration camp?

4. Who do Becca and Magda find that tells them about the concentration camp in Chelmo?

5. What does Becca note about Gemma's Sleeping Beauty version in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Becca's family members try to dissuade her from doing in Chapter 16?

2. Why does Becca wet herself in Chapter 19?

3. What do Becca and Magda discover about the people in Chelmno?

4. How do the girls react to Gemma's explanation to how the cursed, dead people in her story can have future lives?

5. What horrifies Harvey about Gemma's last known address, the town of Kulmhof?

6. Why does Becca point out that Gemma had no tattoos?

7. What does Becca question Gemma about her story in Chapter 13?

8. In Chapter 15, what is the song in Gemma's version of the Briar Rose story about?

9. What does Magda say about the teacher who taught her about the concentration camps?

10. What realization does Becca have when she meets Josef Potocki?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss conflict in "Briar Rose". Who is in conflict with whom? What events or situations cause these conflicts? Are the major conflicts resolved? If so, how?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the struggles faced by Becca throughout the novel. What struggles does Becca face? How does she overcome them?

Essay Topic 3

Gemma's Sleeping Beauty story is an allegory of Gemma's experiences in an extermination camp during WWII. What was the Holocaust? Describe the camp Gemma was sent to. How did this experience impact her life?

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