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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. What is the name of Pug's contact who may have enough clout to help Natalie?

2. What is Natalie told Louis died of?

3. What is removed from Aaron before he is cremated?

4. As Pug tours Russia, he is shocked to hear that General Yevlenko's mother died from___________________.

5. Who is trying to get Louis out of Theresienstadt?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Pug's visit go with President Roosevelt when he returns to Washington after losing the Northampton?

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

3. What act of kindness strikes Natalie as she is being transported in a cattle car from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz?

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

5. How does Louis make the German soldier guarding them on the train laugh?

6. What ordeal does Natalie go through before she learns that Louis is not dead?

7. Why does Rhoda disagree with Pug about helping to get Natalie out of Europe?

8. What is Theresienstadt and how does it allow the Germans to fool the rest of the world?

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

10. Why does Rhoda ask Pug for a divorce?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the true hero of War and Remembrance and why?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What is Wouk showing about human nature through the compliance of the Jews who are manipulated and intimidated by the SS soldiers?

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