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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. About a month after Oma Miriam dies, who comes to Daniel's home?
2. What does Kristallnacht mean?
3. What does the Gestapo officer come to Daniel's to get?
4. Whom does Daniel have to work up the courage to ask for a picture?
5. After Uncle Peter's death, what happens to Daniel's marks in school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What significance does Oma Miriam's death have on Daniel?
2. What does Daniel's photo album come to represent for him?
3. The day after the Brown Shirt incident, Uncle Peter comes to take a picture of the word, Jew sprayed on Daniel's father's store. Why is this action of importance that it should be photographed?
4. Why does Daniel not react when he and Fredrich find the elderly man dead in his apartment?
5. 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?
6. Why did Daniel feel he had to go see "The Eternal Jew"?
7. What purpose does the character of Mr. Schneider serve to the overall plot?
8. Once more a member of Daniel's family tries to convince others to leave Germany. What is significant about Uncle Aaron's plea with Uncle Peter and Daniel's parents?
9. What is the emotional impact of other countries refusal to accept Jews on Daniel's family?
10. What is the importance of keeping Erika's violin in the cupboard with the radio?
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
What is the importance of the Daniel's family members' deaths? Why is this event an important detail about the Germans' attitude toward Jews? Use the text to support your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the novel, Daniel's family rebelled against the German rules and policies. Who does Daniel's family defy their German regulations? Use the text to support your answer.
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