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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 34?

2. How is Elisabeth related to the author?

3. Which country do the Ephrussi go to for their long month away?

4. What does Gedanken im Kriege translate to in English?

5. What two countries had Iggy been offered placements in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the First World War start?

2. What does Edmund's father find for Edmund that he thinks will be important to his research?

3. How did life in Vienna change after Hitler visited the city?

4. How is it suggested that the American took advantage of the Japanese during their occupation of the country?

5. Why did Iggy like Japan?

6. What problems does Viktor have with the vitrine in Chapter 15?

7. Why are Joseph Roth's novels so interesting to Edmund?

8. Describe Emmy's relationship with her children.

9. What does Edmund discover about how Viktor and Emmy lived their lives?

10. How did the Japanese company Sony develop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the stories and helps to express character and theme.

1. Setting

2. Point of view

3. Structure

4. Language

Essay Topic 2

Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

Essay Topic 3

What has Western Europe done to stop anti-Semitism since World War Two? Have they been successful?

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