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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. When Daniel and his family leave their home, what do the authorities search them for?
2. What does Daniel's father decide to do when they get their transport notices in July 1944?
3. What does Erika do to help Rosa and the other workers?
4. Who is Daniel's favorite uncle?
5. What happens on Daniel's birthday in March of 1943?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is significant about the Brown Shirt boycott of Daniel's father's store?
3. Why does Daniel not react when he and Fredrich find the elderly man dead in his apartment?
4. 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?
5. What does Daniel's photo album come to represent for him?
6. What does the photograph of Rosa symbolize?
7. 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."
8. What does Daniel's family's delousing of their clothing and bedding and the parents' attempts to give them a balanced diet mean to the overall plot?
9. Why is the radio important to Daniel's family?
10. How does Daniel's inability to promise Rosa he will hide when his family's deportation papers come demonstrate his love for them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
How does Erika use her violin to express her spirit throughout the book? What impact does it have on the overall story and on the family? Use the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Describe what the Hitler Youth uniform symbolizes for Daniel and for others.What does the Hitler Youth uniform symbolize and what motivation does Oma Miriam have for creating a fake one for Daniel? How does this effect him and what does it mean for those who wear real ones? Use the text to support your answer. Use the text to support your answer.
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