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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. How long did it take Aleks to coax a bird to his window ledge?

2. How long was the exam to get into "Gynmasium"?

3. Who wrote the novel that Sage sees on Josef's nightstand?

4. What does Sage have for dessert when she is supposed to be sitting "shivah" for her grandmother?

5. How many Jews lived in the Jewish town where Minka and her family had to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Rubin steal a loaf of bread, and how was he punished?

2. Why does Josef say that Auschwitz was a good assignment?

3. How did Minka die?

4. What does Leo tell people who come up to him and Sage after the service at the Synagogue?

5. Why didn't Minka mind living in the ghetto at first?

6. What does Sage do when she views her grandmother in the casket?

7. When Sage stops in the bakery after talking with Josef in Section 7, why is it busier than usual?

8. Why did Minka begin to look forward to working for Franz?

9. Why did Josef have to go to the hospital?

10. What did Leo's mother dream?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Leo is a lawyer. Why did Leo give up a high-powered career to work in office of Human Rights and Special Prosecutions?

Essay Topic 2

Minka's life change drastically when her family moved to the ghetto. What was the biggest adjustment that Minka had to make and why?

Essay Topic 3

Ania believed that Aleks was a scapegoat. In what ways was Aleks a scapegoat?

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