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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 Misha do on the night he makes a discovery about the wall?

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

3. What do the boys in the stable think the narrator is?

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

5. What does Misha offer to trade a baker for bread?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What are the men in black coats doing on the first day of the parade?

4. What does the narrator say his name is at the beginning of the novel, and why?

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

6. Who is not in the stable on the morning the Jackboots come to the sable, and where is he?

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

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

9. What did Misha find in the stable the first night that Uri took him?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the narrative voice of Misha. Use specific moments from the text to analyze the nature of this voice.

Essay Topic 2

When Misha first sees the Jackboots, he is awestruck by their rigidity and harshness, and decides early on that he would like to be one some day. How does Misha's viewpoint of the Jackboots change throughout the novel, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Surviving trauma and tragedy is at the heart of the novel. Analyze how the narrator deals with the traumas and tragedies that he experiences, both during and after the war.

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