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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. Where does Leo get a motel the night after hearing Minka's story?

3. Where did Basia work after Majer was old enough for day care?

4. Where did Josef meet Sage's mother?

5. Where did Minka and her husband meet?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Adam want when he comes bringing Sage lilies?

6. How did Minka die?

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

8. Who were Aleksander's first victims?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Adam treated death meticulously and with great care. How was the way the Germans treated death different from how Adam treated it?

Essay Topic 3

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

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