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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 kind of program has Natalie been to when she returns to her room to discover new clothes for her meeting with Eichmann?

2. What is the name of the submarine Byron commands?

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

4. After Moscow, Pug is sent to _______.

5. What does Aaron tell the new director that the music department at Theresienstadt needs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Wouk uses the character of Berel to show the strength and resilience of the Jewish people.

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