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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 illness is Aaron diagnosed as having while in German custody in France?

2. Peters reveals to Pug in Chapter 80 that the Army is interested in the Navy's system of processing _________.

3. Leslie disagrees with the plans of _____________who believes the Jews can all be moved from Germany.

4. What is the toy Louis Henry is playing with on the train that makes the German soldier laugh?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Aaron manage to get some better food on the train when he is being transported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt?

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

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

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

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

9. What was Natalie's job while she was at Auschwitz?

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

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 how the novel depicts the way many Americans, even those overseas, failed to understand the impact World War II was soon to have on everyone's lives.

Essay Topic 3

How was the "Wannsee Protocol" used to convey the horror of what happened in the German death camps from the dual vantage point of being in the thick of the war and the wisdom of hindsight?

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