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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 name was the event of destroying the Jewish shops in Germany given?

2. What ship had the Blumenthal's paid for their passage to America on?

3. In what year was Marion born?

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

5. What was the name given to Hitler's attempt to overthrow the German government?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Marion feel was the worst part of life at Bergen-Belsen?

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

4. What did Hitler do to Polish Jews on October 28, 1938?

5. Why did Marion's father dispose of his service revolver?

6. What were Ruth's duties while at Westerbork?

7. What did the government levy against the Jews on November 12th, 1938?

8. What view of Hitler's made him gain popularity?

9. How did Marion's parents meet?

10. What happened to Ernst vom Rath in November 1938?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Typhus greatly affected the lives of the Jewish prisoners in Germany. Discuss the impact that typhus had on their lives and the concentration camps.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the death of Marion's father and the effect that it had on his family.

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