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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. Where are the women and children taken for one hour at night?

2. Who says they have been too easy on everyone?

3. What happens to the women when they head for the midden to escape?

4. Who's hand does Hannah see is bandaged and bloody?

5. Who gives Hannah a bowl to of water to wash her clothes with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hannah die?

2. Where are the women and children taken first at the camp and why?

3. Who is described as the 'sorrowful' boy?

4. What happens when Hannah daydreams about food?

5. Discuss the potential escape of the women.

6. What do Hannah and Eva discuss in Chapter 19?

7. What happens to Gitl and Yitchak after the war?

8. What does Hannah do with the bread she is given at meals?

9. What happens when the Commandant comes in Chapter 15?

10. Discuss Hannah's reaction to the first Choosing.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ethnic injustices are used against the Jews in the novel. In what ways are they used and what is the result of this?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss setting. What is the role/importance of setting in the novel and how it is displayed?

Essay Topic 3

Heroism is shown when Chaya takes Rivka's place when Rivka is chosen to die while at the concentration camp. Discuss the idea of heroism and the way it is used in the novel

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