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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 does Aaron work in Theresienstadt?

2. What is the name of the married man Madeline Henry is having an affair with?

3. The _______ Jews were the spotlight of the Red Cross visit to Theresienstadt.

4. What is the name of the Japanese fleet commander who faces Pug and Byron in battle?

5. What is the name of Captain Aster's executive officer on the submarine?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are Slote's request to help the Jews received by the State Department?

3. What does General Yevlenko tell Pug about what has happened in Leningrad?

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

5. How does Pug feel when he discovers the scrapbook Rhoda made of Warren's life?

6. What happens when Aaron and Natalie meet with Eichmann during their stay at Theresienstadt?

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

8. What does the Red Cross representative who gave a glowing report of Theresienstadt later testify that he knew?

9. Why does a doctor Aaron meets compare Nazi Germany to the Ku Klux Klan?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the final thoughts Wouk leaves the reader with after the long journey through World War II.

Essay Topic 2

How are both the flaws and the depths of relationships in the novel magnified during war?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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