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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who refuses to come to Paris, saying it is "better to be a wise man in hell than a fool in heaven" (44)?
(a) Nachman.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Emma.
(d) Vicente.

2. Who did Myriam and Noémi befriend?
(a) Deborah.
(b) Madeleine Rose.
(c) Anna.
(d) Colette.

3. Who drove Myriam out of Paris?
(a) Gabriele.
(b) Jean.
(c) Henrietta.
(d) Emma.

4. Who broke away from their parent's religion and joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party?
(a) Myriam.
(b) Jacques.
(c) Ephraim.
(d) Emma.

5. What kind of business did Ephraim own in Riga?
(a) A flower shop.
(b) An egg shop.
(c) A caviar business.
(d) A citrus farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of invention did Boris create?

2. What instrument did Emma teach?

3. Where does Anne meet with Gerard Rambert?

4. Why did Ephraim read "Trifles for a Massacre"?

5. How did Noémie die?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Anne ask Lélia about the history of their family?

2. How did Noémi get stricken from the list to be sent to Auschwitz?

3. What item did Maurice give Jacques?

4. Describe Myriam and Vicente's wedding.

5. How does Myriam get through the checkpoints with Vicente's mother and sister?

6. What was upsetting to Noémi about a tea party held by a classmate?

7. What did the apples symbolize at Pesach?

8. What had Emma and Ephraïm packed when they were arrested?

9. What did Maurice Wolf write to the Rabinovitch family about his neighborhood?

10. In the dialogue between a grandmother and child, what does the child reveal?

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