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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 do some of the Jews leave with Corrie and her family?

2. In Chapter 5, the family stays up to listen to who on the radio?

3. What fills the shop on the day that the novel opens?

4. What does Corrie want to wear for her first day of school?

5. Who advises Corrie about her broken heart?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who helps Corrie in her quest to help the Jews in Holland? How do these people help her?

2. What medical problem does Aunt Jans have? What does Corrie learn to do for her? What happens in January in regards to Aunt Jans?

3. Who is Otto? What is he like?

4. How do the Ten Booms react to the requests to take in Jews? How does this intersect with their faith in God?

5. What are the worker drafts? How do individuals try to avoid these?

6. Who comes to stay at the Beje? Why do these particular people end up with the Ten Booms?

7. How does Betsie's illness affect Corrie? What changes do the sisters make in their home and the watch shop?

8. What challenges do the underground face? How do the individuals involved try to overcome these issues?

9. What becomes a crime in Holland? How does Peter get into trouble? What happens to him?

10. What is happening on the day that the novel opens? Describe the events.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Corrie's family members influence her development and personality? Give specific examples from the book. Who do you think had the greatest influence on Corrie? What effect does Corrie have on her family members in return?

Essay Topic 2

What are the concentration camps like? What hardships are present for the prisoners? How do they attempt to minimize these hardships?

Essay Topic 3

Corrie and Betsie believed that God directed their lives. Why do you think that God allowed these sisters to be arrested? What purpose might it have had? How did Corrie and Betsie feel about their imprisonment?

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