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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Chris' father?
(a) A French Ambassador.
(b) An American businessman.
(c) An Italian Ambassador.
(d) An Italian Count.

2. What does the plan that Simon Eden, Emanuel Goldman, and David Zemba devise ultimately achieve?
(a) Escape for 3,000 Jews.
(b) An alibi for Brandel's plan.
(c) Escape for 4,000 Jews.
(d) Money and operational centers for Brandel.

3. From where is Hitler sending more Jews into the ghetto, causing overcrowding?
(a) Russia and Austria.
(b) Hungary and Austria.
(c) Germany and Austria.
(d) Germany and Hungary.

4. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 8, what does Chris insist he will have to stop doing in order to avoid additional scrutiny?
(a) Stop carrying American money from the embassy in Cracow.
(b) Stop carrying German money from the embassy in Russia.
(c) Stop carrying German money from the embassy in Hungary.
(d) Stop carrying Hungarian money from the embassy in Cracow.

5. Germans agreed to a prisoner exchange of _____ Pole(s) for _____ German(s).
(a) 5/1.
(b) 4/1.
(c) 1/1.
(d) 2/1.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Emanuel Goldman?

2. How does Paul characterize his wife's brother, Andrei Androfski?

3. When Ervin calls at the end of Part 1, Chapter 9, what news does he have?

4. There is pressure on Chris to close the news agency, but he will not ____________.

5. Why will Andrei not marry Gabriela?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brandel decide to do with his family in Part 2, Chapter 12?

2. What do Alex Brandel and Andrei view differently at the The Bathyran Council meeting in Part 1?

3. What actions does Koenig take in Part 2, Chapter 1?

4. When Chris returns from covering the war on the eastern front, what does he discover?

5. How is Gabriela Rak initially described to readers?

6. In what year does the book open, and what is the political setting?

7. When Paul Bronski meets with Andrei in Part 3, Chapter 3, in an effort to neutralize Andrei's militant efforts, what does Bronski offer? How does Andrei respond?

8. As the preparation for the occupation of Warsaw continues, a truce is to be signed. What have the Germans agreed to exchange? What is discovered later about why the Germans even offered this exchange?

9. How does Brandel show that he trusts Rabbi Solomon? With what does Solomon respond?

10. Who in the novel keeps a journal, and why?

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