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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. In Section 1, what is Emilia's nationality?

2. In Section 1, where does Alfred say that home is?

3. In Section 1, how old was the woman Joana found dead in the snow?

4. In Section 2, how old does Eva think that Florian is?

5. In Section 2, what does Alfred say was the most recent use of the Gustloff?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Section 1, what does Joana tell about her story as she removes the shrapnel from Florian?

2. In Section 2, what happens as Ingrid crosses the ice?

3. In Section 1, what does Emilia remember doing with her mother?

4. In Section 1, how many horses do Joana's group have and why?

5. In Section 1, what does Eva learn about Emilia by talking with her?

6. In Section 2, how does Florian think that the family of the manor house died?

7. In Section 2, why might it be a problem for Ingrid to cross the ice?

8. In Section 1, what does Joana notice when Florian and Emilia come into the barn where Joana's group is staying?

9. In Section 1, how does the shoe poet say that a frozen woman that Joana's group passes died?

10. In Section 1, what does Emilia see after the Russian soldier accosts her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the characters experience one or more disasters. How does disaster affect various characters, and how does disaster reveal character?

Essay Topic 2

Florian and Joana become friends and eventually marry. How do circumstances affect the relationship between Joana and Florian, and how do those circumstances help the relationship to develop?

Essay Topic 3

At the beginning of the novel; Joana, Florian, Emilia, and Alfred all name something that is a hunter. What does each character say is a hunter and how are guilt, fate, shame, and fear hunters?

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