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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. In Chapter 10, what block are Cibi and Livi assigned to?

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. In Chapter 6, what can the girls smell when they board a second train?

4. How many teens are in the clearing in the middle of the woods in Chapter 2?

5. Where does Livi have a cut when she falls and breaks a window in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dr. Kiseley tell Maga when she insists she needs to go home?

2. How does Cibi become a clerk?

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

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

5. What does Cibi decide to do when she learns that Livi is to go work for the Germans?

6. Who helps Cibi when her feet are ravaged with frostbite?

7. What does the new kapo, Rita, tell Cibi and Livi their first morning at Birkenau?

8. What do the Hlinka Guard say when Chaya says that Livi is too young to go work for the Germans?

9. What goes into the soups the sisters are served in Chapter 9?

10. Where do the Hachshara train?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A flashback is a point in a story where an author takes readers back in time to present information that happened previously. How does Morris use flashbacks to reveal information from the past?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view of Three Sisters? How does the way that the third-person narrator follows different characters influence what readers know about events and characters? How does having the narrator follow different characters help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place and time where a novel takes place. What is the setting in Three Sisters? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the mood in the book?

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