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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 sad event happened every morning at the second concentration camp Marion's family lived in?

2. Where did Marion's mother go to negotiate her husband's release from the concentration camp?

3. When was Hitler made Fuhrer of Germany?

4. How many Jewish men were taken to concentration camps on November 10th, 1938?

5. Where did Marion's mother work when she was 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was destroyed in the Autumn of 1938?

2. What happened in Hanover, Germany on November 9th and 10th, 1938?

3. What did the term "run into the wires" mean?

4. When and why was war declared on Germany?

5. What was life like for the Blumenthal family in Holland?

6. What were living conditions like at Westerbork?

7. What was life like for the German-Jewish refugees of the mid to late 1930s?

8. What was Marion's childhood in Hoya like?

9. Why was life in the Sternlager section of Bergen-Belsen considered better than life in the other sections?

10. What happened to Marion's father in the early morning hours of November 10, 1938?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Marion's paternal grandparents were a large part of her young life. Discuss the role that Marion's grandparents played in her life.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the tone Lazan and Perl used in "Four Perfect Pebbles". Did the tone create a certain impression of Marion Blumenthal or affect the way that Blumenthal was portrayed throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the lives of Marion and her family in Germany in the 1930s and 40s to the lives of their non-Jewish German friends.

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