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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 the kapo tell Daniel and his father the night they sneak out into the woods?

2. What does Father tell Daniel when Daniel refuses to help the wounded Nazi?

3. What do Father and Daniel learn about rations during their time at Auschwitz?

4. How does Daniel feel when he gives the camera to the kapo?

5. According to Rosa, where is Erika?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Adam talk about the horrors of Auschwitz in a matter of fact tone?

2. What is the significance of the author showing the reader how the Germans live?

3. What is the difference between the Americans and the civilians of the Buchenwald in chapter fifteen?

4. How does Passover provide hope for the Jewish people?

5. When Daniel is captured attempting to hide from deportation to Auschwitz, why does he believe the pictures and Erika are right?

6. How does Adam's death prove that he lived only for revenge?

7. Is it necessary for the kapo in charge of Daniel's group to be so cruel?

8. Why is Father such an important character in chapter 12 ?

9. How does Daniel's access to a radio symbolize his hope returning?

10. How does the author use the train ride to symbolize how the treatment of Jews have further declined?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are the radio, Daniel's camera, and Erika's violin symbols of hope? In what ways do the Jews quietly demonstrate they have hope? Use the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

How does Daniel's nightmare after seeing "The Eternal Jew" about Aunt Leah foreshadow her death in Lodz later on? Use the text to support your answer.

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