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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 kind of jewelry does the narrator wear?

2. What color hair does the boy who finds the narrator at the beginning of the novel have?

3. Why would Uri not allow the narrator to go outside in Chapter 5?

4. What does Janina's uncle call their new home?

5. Why were there people outside carrying shovels?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Misha begin taking to the orphanage on a regular basis?

2. Who does Misha find living at Janina's house one day?

3. What happens to the merry-go-round the morning after Misha sneaks out to ride it?

4. What does the little girl invite Misha to, and what does Misha do at that event?

5. Why are there people in the street with newspapers covering their faces in the ghetto?

6. Where does Misha take the roasted rats he steals?

7. Where does Misha go as soon as he gets to the ghetto, the morning the Jackboots came to the stable, and what does he discover there?

8. What carnival ride does Misha discover near the orphanage?

9. What did the boys think of Misha when he first met them?

10. How do Uri and Misha get food for themselves?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore Misha's role within the Milgrom family. What is he to them, and what does Misha do for them?

Essay Topic 2

The ghetto comes across as a character of its own in the novel. Write an essay in which you analyze the significance and nature of the Warsaw ghetto. Select three defining characteristic of the ghetto as described by Misha and explain why they are important to the overall narrative.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the relationship between Janina and Misha. What is significant about this relationship, and why?

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