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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. Where do Josek and his family go after the SS raid at the Astoria?

2. How long was Minka's hair when she met her husband?

3. How old was Sage when her grandmother had cancer?

4. What does the van say where Leo will be when Sage is wired and talks to Josef?

5. How old was the child of a new woman who was from Random, who gave her child to her elderly mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Leo think his mother would and would not like about Sage?

2. How did Minka and the other women of Auschwitz feel when they saw a bride arrive on a transport?

3. How did Minka remove an infected tooth from Darija's mouth?

4. What happened while the soldiers were whipping Aleks?

5. How did Minka get Christian papers?

6. Why did an autograph album make Darija cry while she was working in Kanada?

7. Why does Mary say it is important to forgive?

8. What was Minka's life like before the ghetto?

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

10. In Section 7, why does Sage want to borrow the kitchen at the bakery?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On the surface, Sage and Josef don't seem to have anything in common. What draws the two of them together to become friends?

Essay Topic 2

Sage referred to her grandmother as a survivor twice over. What was there in Minka's life that made her a survivor?

Essay Topic 3

Sage hits a deer when she is driving. What are factors that contributed to her accident?

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