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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 is the shoe poet's name?

2. In Section 4 when Alfred goes to the infirmary because he is seasick, what is he told to do?

3. In Section 4, how many nautical miles offshore does Alfred say that the ship is when he hears a loud bang and feels something slam into the ship?

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

5. In Section 3, when does Emilia remember that the Russians invaded Poland from the east?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

4. In Section 3, what is blood guilt?

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

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

7. In Section 3 as Joana leaves the movie house with Emilia, what does she see as she walks toward the ship?

8. In Section 3, why does Eva not register with the rest of the group?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Characters struggle with internal and external conflicts. How do various characters face the conflicts they encounter, and how do the conflicts reveal character traits?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

There are several references to birth in the novel. How does the author develop the theme of birth and the ability of birth to take place even in difficult situations?

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