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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. What did the villa Guests do to let Jan know they did not like the way he was treating Antonina?
2. Why did Magdalena's presence at the villa pose a greater threat to the other Guests?
3. What did Himmler study before the war?
4. What practice did Rabbi Shapira engage in to help himself deal with the suffering in the Ghetto?
5. Why did Rys tell his mother he knew more about keeping wartime secrets than she did?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Jan talk to Rys as though he were a soldier when he confronted the boy about his plan to bomb a haystack?
2. Why did Antonina consider Fox Man’s cat, Balbina, a good citizen of the villa?
3. How did the Jews respond to Himmler trying to liquidate the remaining Jews in the Ghetto in 1943?
4. Why does Ackerman describe Wicek the rabbit as a “fat, furry thug”?
5. What did Antonina write in her journal that the author said was as close as she ever got to writing about being an orphan?
6. Why was Antonina confined to bed for several months?
7. Why did Jan and Antonina carry cyanide pills with them?
8. How did Jan’s observations about animal behaviors help him in his Underground work?
9. Why was it difficult for some Jews to change their names in order to go into hiding?
10. In Janusz Korczak’s story about an astronomer named Zi who lived on the planet Ro, why did Zi consider destroying Earth?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Wicek and Kuba play important roles in the lives of the Zabinskis as well as in Ackerman’s development of themes and statements about human behavior. Write an essay that explains the importance of these animals, how the author uses them to develop themes, and what she suggests about human behavior through these animals.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining the author’s development and use of the theme of courage. What suggestion does the author make about courage? How does she use people to strengthen the theme?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay describing how the author develops the theme of what makes a house a home. How does Antonina make the villa a home even after the war starts? How does she make the schoolhouse a home?
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