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

2. Where was Aaron's Italian villa located?

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

4. Leslie Slote is at a function in _____ when he meets Selma Ascher.

5. What did von Roon say was the key to the Axis upset victory in "The Japanese Surge" section of World Holocaust?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the history between Byron and Natalie?

3. How are Byron and Natalie finally reunited in Marseilles?

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

5. What is Aaron Jastrow's reaction when Mose Sacerdote tells him it was Dr. Beck who arranged for him and Natalie to be detained in Italy?

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

7. Why does Byron decide not to trust Luke Babbage with information about Natalie?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

"Our little earth contains traces of the primordial ash of creation, powerful in handful sizes to wipe us all out: and human nature contains traces of savagery, persisting in advanced society, which can use the stuff to wipe us out." Discuss what Wouk means by this statement in the last chapter.

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