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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 is the SS official who visits Beck, insisting Italian Jews be moved to German work camps?

2. Who is the high-ranking SS officer who is coming to inspect Auschwitz?

3. Sacerdote tells Aaron and Natalie that the doctor who has treated Louis is whom?

4. Whom did Byron meet up with at the party in Chapter 23?

5. Whom did Pam spend the most time talking to at the party in Chapter 23?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the poignant scene at the end of Chapter 23.

3. Where is Natalie Henry as War and Remembrance opens?

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

5. Why is Leslie Slote surprised to see Selma at the home of Britton Treville?

6. What effect does hearing Pam's voice included on a broadcast with Talky have on Pug?

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

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

9. What does the Commandant of Auschwitz note about the women prisoners as the techniques for killing the Jews is honed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the extent of the hoax that was Theresienstadt and why did the Germans go to such extremes to keep it up, including a separate Jewish government?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Was the reunion of Byron and Natalie satisfying to the reader? Why or why not? Why do you think Wouk depicted it this way?

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