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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. Pam and Pug are moving into a Washington apartment that formerly belong to whom?

2. Where does Aaron work in Theresienstadt?

3. Who is the Jewish woman who helps Berel Jastrow when he is captured by the partisans?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does Rhoda ask Pug for a divorce?

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

7. How does Berel Jastrow find the man he is supposed to give the secret documents to in Prague?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how even in the midst of war, love affairs dominate the hearts and minds of many of the characters. Do books and movies excessively romanticize this time period or are the portrayals of love triangles and such probably accurate?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What was the extent of the hoax that was Theresienstadt and why did the Germans go to such extremes to keep it up, including a separate Jewish government?

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