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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 4, how many torpedoes does Alfred learn hit the ship?

2. In Section 3, what does Eva have on the wagon that she does not want to leave behind?

3. In Section 4, how does Joana say that her uncle died?

4. In Section 3, were does Alfred find Florian when he goes to meet with him?

5. What name is on Emilia's identification papers in Section 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Section 3, how does Emilia remember becoming pregnant?

2. In Section 3, how does Emilia describe her mother's death?

3. In Section 3, what does Joana learn about Florian and Koch?

4. What does Alfred do when a sailor tells him to get a coat if he can find one?

5. What does Alfred do to a child's toy and why when he collapses in the music room after vomiting with seasickness in Section 4?

6. In Section 4, what interrupts the music that plays on the ships speaker's and why?

7. In Section 3, what does Emilia remember about the invasion of Poland?

8. In Section 4, why does Joana say that she is a murderer?

9. In Section 4, what does Florian think might help him leave the ship without getting arrested?

10. In Section 4, what does Joana see and feel at 9:15 p.m.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in the novel are concerned about survival. Why are the characters focused on survival, and how does that focus leave no room for friendships or anything else that is not essential?

Essay Topic 2

Florian and the shoe poet get acquainted as they travel together. In what ways are Florian and the shoe poet’s personalities alike and different, and how do the personality traits that they share help them deal with the war that is going on?

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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