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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 the SS officer who is in charge of uncovering the mass graves and burning the bodies?

2. In Chapter 53, according to Leslie Slote, where is Natalie?

3. What is Sime Anderson working on for the government?

4. What is the name of the new director at Theresienstadt after Aaron becomes a Jewish official?

5. While unpacking Pug's things together at the new apartment, Rhoda and Pam hear of whose death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aster do during battle to show himself to be less than honorable?

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

3. What does Pug discover when he asks other Americans in Iran about Rhoda and Peters?

4. How does Mutterperl die, leaving Berel alone to escape?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Wouk highlights many of the harsh realities of the plight of the Jews during World War II through the story of Natalie and Aaron.

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

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

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