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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 does Rhoda serve to eat at her reunion with Pug in Washington in Chapter 50?

2. What does Leslie Slote tell Julius Wurtweiler is the only real way to help the Jews in Europe?

3. How many Jews are transported from Theresienstadt in an effort to alleviate the overcrowding before the Red Cross visit?

4. Aaron sings and dances to a death song one night and as the performance ends Aaron recognizes _____.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How does the character of Leslie Slote play the role as the collective conscience of Americans?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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