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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 many people were rounded up from the Astoria the afternoon that Minka and Josek had their date?

2. What month did Minka and her family have to begin wearing yellow stars?

3. What did Leo do after Minka told her story and Sage sat with her as she went to sleep?

4. What was unusual about Casimir's appearance?

5. What did Josef say his brother did during the war?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who were Aleksander's first victims?

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

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

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

7. What happened while the soldiers were whipping Aleks?

8. What does Leo notice about the way Sage acts around her sisters?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although Sage is a young woman, she matures and grows up in the novel. How did Sage grow up and mature throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Josef excelled in the Hitler Youth and became an SS officer. How did Josef do so well in the Hitler Youth that it lead to him becoming an officer in the SS?

Essay Topic 3

Minka had never shared her story before she told it to Leo and Sage. Why didn't Minka ever share her story before?

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