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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 Kasia want to name her baby?

2. What is Herta's reaction when Binz tells her Halina is gone?

3. What is the psychologist who comes to visit the camp studying?

4. What color triangles do the Jules wear?

5. Where do Zuzanna and Kasia recover in Chapter 28?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Herr Fenstermacher do for Zuzanna on Christmas? What does this do for her?

2. How dose Kasia leave the recovery ward of the Revier?

3. How is Paul and Caroline’s relationship when she first gets to France?

4. What is the state of France when Caroline gets there after the war?

5. What is Kasia’s reaction when she learns that Matka is gone?

6. What is Kasia’s reaction to meeting Marthe?

7. What does Herta warn Commandant Suhren about in Chapter 20?

8. How do Zuzanna and Kasia escape from Ravensbruck?

9. What does Caroline learn about Paul and Rena in Chapter 18?

10. What does Felka symbolize in Chapter 32?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Betty and Caroline have a strained relationship throughout the text. How does the time period and culture that Caroline and Betty live within influence their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Is Paul a moral man? Why or why not?

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