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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. Aaron notes that Sacerdote is Italian for what name?

2. What do Aaron and Natalie serve for dinner when Dr. Beck is their guest in Italy?

3. As Rhoda arrives in Hollywood, Madeline has been put in charge of a party at the home of whom?

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

5. Where was Aaron's Italian villa located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the history between Byron and Natalie?

2. What concern about the Castelnuovo family does Natalie express to Rabinovitz?

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

4. Why does the commander of Auschwitz change his uniform when he goes home for dinner?

5. Where is Byron Henry, Natalie's husband, at the beginning of War and Remembrance?

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

7. Why does Slote's boss finally change his mind about the fate of the Jews?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how even in the midst of war, love affairs dominate the hearts and minds of many of the characters. Do books and movies excessively romanticize this time period or are the portrayals of love triangles and such probably accurate?

Essay Topic 3

What does the character of Byron, an American married to an Auschwitz survivor, represent in the novel? What does Louis represent as the son of these two?

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