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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. Who misinforms Byron that Natalie and the baby are on a boat headed to America?

2. Leslie Slote is slipped top secret documents by whom?

3. The Northampton and several other ships are off the coast of _________ when they take heavy torpedo fire.

4. Where is Pam Tudsbury having dinner with Phillip Rule in London?

5. What is the main title of the Von Roon document that Pug Henry translates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pam tell Rhoda when they meet for breakfast in Hollywood?

2. What point is von Roon making in the "Hitler Berserk" section of The Road to Midway?

3. What concern does Rhoda Henry express about her daughter-in-law in a letter to her husband?

4. Why is Natalie advised not to leave France immediately with Byron?

5. What are Pug's thoughts about Warren as they go into the battle of Midway?

6. What happens when Pamela Tudsbury goes with friends to meet her father at a club in Singapore?

7. What does Roon note in his document was the difference between the desires of the president and that of the American people?

8. When does Aaron Jastrow finally come to the realization that Natalie was right to distrust Dr. Beck?

9. What happens when the Northampton get hit in a battle off the coast of Tulagi?

10. What are Warren's final thoughts before his plane explodes in the Pacific Ocean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the novel depicts the way many Americans, even those overseas, failed to understand the impact World War II was soon to have on everyone's lives.

Essay Topic 2

How does the character of Leslie Slote play the role as the collective conscience of Americans?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Aaron and Natalie's train trip from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz is an allegorical journey showing how horrific the end was for the Jews sent to the death camps.

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