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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. Who writes to tell Byron the truth about Pug and Rhoda's divorce?

2. What does a farmer toss into the train car that Natalie is riding to Auschwitz?

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

4. Whom is Janice sleeping with after Warren's death?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Rhoda ask Pug for a divorce?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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