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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 type of bush droops in the Meller's garden?

2. What do former friends and neighbors throw at Cibi, Livi, and the other Jewish girls as they herded away from the synagogue by the Hlinka guard?

3. Where does Menachem Meller have a bullet from the Great War still lodged inside him?

4. In Chapter 6 after Livi hurts her hands, how many girls are taken away by three guards?

5. In Chapter 11, what have Cibi and Livi found in the seams of clothing they sort?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Cibi become a clerk?

2. In Chapter 1, where is Cibi?

3. In Chapter 10, why does the kapo, Ingrid, tell the sisters not to ride in the trucks to their new quarters at Birkenau?

4. What is the job the sisters are assigned to do in Chapter 7?

5. In Chapter 9, why is Livi upset when she returns from the hospital?

6. In Chapter 8, what does Chaya do while she waits for Magda to get home?

7. Why does Dr. Kisely put Magda in the hospital in Chapter 1?

8. What do Cibi and Livi pack in Chapter 4?

9. Why do two of the Hlinka Guard come to the Meller home in Chapter 3?

10. What is the ward like where Maga is staying in the hospital, and how does she know when a patient is about to die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Three Sisters, some characters are three-dimensional and others are two-dimensional. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the story line? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

Essay Topic 2

Livi is shocked when she learns her head has been shaved. Why is Livi shocked when she learns her head has been shaved? How did she dissociate when her head was being shaved? Why is dissociation a useful skill in the concentration camp?

Essay Topic 3

Mala, an interpreter, escapes and then is recaptured. What choice does Mala make when she is returned to the camp? How does she keep a sense of freedom through her decision?

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