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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 title of Chapter 3?

2. What is the title of Chapter 4?

3. What was Dreyfus accused of?

4. What kind of publication was the gazette?

5. What was the name of the area in Paris the Ephrussi family moved to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Edmund think was strange about Charles' relationship with the Impressionist painters?

2. What was the family's goal in terms of their grain business?

3. Why does Edmund think he has fallen for Charles?

4. Why does Charles buy a vitrine in Chapter 6?

5. How did Charles help Laforgue?

6. What problems were Charles and his relative having at the end of Chapter 20?

7. Describe Edmund's relative Ignace von Ephrussi.

8. How did the Dreyfus affair effect Jewish people?

9. What passion did Charles and his love share?

10. How did the Dreyfus affair change Charles' attitude towards life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the city's de Waal's family lived in and examine how anger towards the Jewish population developed. Why were the originally accepted into the city? Why were the eventually ran out of the city?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the city's de Waal visits in the book.

1. How did war change the city? What was it like before the war?

2. How did each city help develop the identity of de Waal's family?

Essay Topic 3

Why do the students think de Waal only shows the life of the rich Jews such as his family members in his book? In light of all the problems, what are the disadvantages with representing only the rich Jewish members of society? How would the meaning of the book changed if he had represented the lives of some of the poorer members of Jewish society?

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