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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. What does Daniel believe the boys who wear the Hitler Youth uniforms feel?
2. What happens to Daniel's father's store the day after Kristallnacht?
3. How many years has Daniel's family lived in Germany?
4. Because it is so cold during the winter of 1943, what happens to the walls in Daniel's apartment?
5. Whom is Daniel's father able to convince the Germans to let stay with him?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the scene with Daniel and his friends skirmish with the Hitler Youth boys important to the story?
2. What is the importance of keeping Erika's violin in the cupboard with the radio?
3. How does tradition and the fact that Daniel's family has been in Germany for over a thousand years affect his parents' decisions about emigrating?
4. Why is Erika statement, "But maybe if we can hold out long enough, the war will end before they have a chance to kill us" important to the theme of chapter six?
5. What does Daniel mean when he says, "Yes, I can see from going through these pictures how it all started slowly and then got worse and worse and how the German people didn't try to stop it and how slowly all our rights were taken away until we were nothing but bodies being shipped out."
6. In what ways is Erika playing in an orchestra not normal for Daniel's family?
7. Why does Daniel's father insist they carry their belongings with them instead of doing what the Germans said and putting their belongings in the wagon?
8. Why did Daniel feel he had to go see "The Eternal Jew"?
9. Why does Auntie Leah decide not to leave her two girls?
10. What is the tragedy of the kitchen workers at the sewing factory keeping the good vegetables for themselves?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Daniel's depression after Uncle Peter's death mirror how the Jewish people all over Germany felt? What is similar? How does Daniel's few of his studies also mirror the hopelessness and bleak feelings of others during this time?Use the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 2
In what ways does Father's quiet wisdom and intelligence help his family survive during their time in Lodz? Be sure to include factual examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
How do the themes of hatred and love continue to battle throughout the novel? Find descriptions from the text to support your answer and to provide evidence for your opinion.
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