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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 is Herta certain of by the end of Chapter 9?

2. What does Halina do for the guards and doctors?

3. What does Matka say she would bring down Beauty Road with her in Chapter 16?

4. How is Halina paid for her portraits?

5. What does Regina bring to the Revier?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the perks Halina receives for working in the Revier?

2. In Chapter 14 we meet Binz. What type of person is Binz?

3. Describe the relationship between Halina and Herta.

4. What dose Caroline’s interaction with Priscilla Huff in Chapter 12 reveal about her personality?

5. What does the Polish Underground provide for Kasia?

6. Does Herta have a lot of female friends before her life at Ravensbruck? What does this tell us about her?

7. Why does Pietrik not want to send Kasia on more advanced missions?

8. Although Paul and Caroline’s relationship gets physical, Paul leaves in the middle of the act. What does this reveal about Paul?

9. What is Caroline’s relationship like with Roger?

10. What is Caroline’s relationship like with Pia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the relationship between Kasia and her daughter. What causes Kasia to have such a strained relationship with Halina?

Essay Topic 2

One cannot read this novel without thinking about the current political state in America. Compare the attitudes about immigration in the text to current attitude about immigration in America.

Essay Topic 3

There are many different languages spoken throughout the text. What does language symbolize in this novel? Discuss times that language played an important role in the text.

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