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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aaron use to try to bribe the commander of Theresienstadt to save Natalie from being transported?
(a) Gold watch.
(b) Money.
(c) Diamonds.
(d) Secret information.

2. While unpacking Pug's things together at the new apartment, Rhoda and Pam hear of whose death?
(a) Louis Henry.
(b) Aaron Jastrow.
(c) Leslie Slote.
(d) President Roosevelt.

3. Where does Leslie get information about the concentration camps?
(a) Ladies magazines.
(b) Major newspapers.
(c) University newspapers.
(d) Theater pamphlets.

4. Leslie Slote explains to the Henrys that Aaron and Natalie are being __________ in France rather than detained.
(a) Confined.
(b) Released.
(c) Entertained.
(d) Interned.

5. When Aaron meets with SS officials during his time at Theresienstadt, what do they ask him to be the head of?
(a) Department of Cultural Affairs.
(b) Department of Valuable Possessions.
(c) Department of Defense.
(d) Department of Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. When he returns to Washington at the end of the war, Pug is offered what position?

2. Peters reveals to Pug in Chapter 80 that the Army is interested in the Navy's system of processing _________.

3. What is the name of the new director at Theresienstadt after Aaron becomes a Jewish official?

4. What is Germany running low on in the summer of 1944?

5. What is the toy Louis Henry is playing with on the train that makes the German soldier laugh?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aaron get Natalie off the list of Jews to be moved out of Theresienstadt?

2. How does Pug's visit go with President Roosevelt when he returns to Washington after losing the Northampton?

3. How does Berel Jastrow find the man he is supposed to give the secret documents to in Prague?

4. What act of kindness strikes Natalie as she is being transported in a cattle car from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz?

5. What was Natalie's job while she was at Auschwitz?

6. What does Aster do during battle to show himself to be less than honorable?

7. What does Pug discover when he asks other Americans in Iran about Rhoda and Peters?

8. What does Madeline reveal about their parents' marriage in the letter she writes to Byron?

9. Why are the children at Madame Rosen's orphanage rounded up by the Nazis?

10. What ordeal does Natalie go through before she learns that Louis is not dead?

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