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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. How many bags was each family member allowed to take when leaving Holland?

2. What did Marion have nightmares about while in Trobitz?

3. What color was the powder that the doctors sprinkled on Marion's burn on her leg?

4. How much time had passed between the first time the Blumenthals were in Holland and the second time?

5. What were the graves that the dead prisoners in Trobitz were buried in called?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led the Blumenthals to leave Westerbork?

2. What did the German guards order the prisoners to do each day while on the train?

3. What food absolutely fascinated Marion in Holland?

4. What happened to Marion's leg while she and her mother were cooking soup in the camp in Germany?

5. How did Marion feel about returning to Holland?

6. What happened to the prisoners when they arrived at the train?

7. What was the main reason that so many prisoners were evacuated from Bergen-Belsen?

8. What did Ruth say was the only way the family was able to survive the early months at Bergen-Belsen?

9. How was Marion's burn treated after the liberation?

10. What were telescope graves?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Marion's hometown was Hoya, Germany. Discuss Marion's life in Hoya.

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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