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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. Why are there children singing in the courtyard?

2. What does Misha tell Janina's father about her?

3. What do the Jackboots threaten to do if they catch people smuggling?

4. What does the man with the silver pipe invite children to do?

5. How do Janina and Misha get food without smuggling for a few nights?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Himmler arrive at the ghetto, and who does he see?

2. Where do Janina and Misha sneak off to one night?

3. Why does Misha ask Big Henryk to beat his feet with a stick?

4. Why is Uri dressed in fine clothes at the Jackboot hotel?

5. How do Misha and Janina get food for a few nights that does not entail smuggling it?

6. Why does the farmer keep Misha in his barn tied to a stable at night?

7. What does the Jackboot in the courtyard do with his girlfriend?

8. Where is the cow that Janina finds in the ghetto?

9. What are Flops and what do they do?

10. Why does Misha adore his granddaughter so much?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing the relationship between Misha and Doctor Korczak. What is important about this bond, and why? Use evidence from the text to support your claims.

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

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?

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