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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 is Sime Anderson working on for the government?

2. What is the name of Leslie Slote's friend in the State Department?

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

4. General Yevlenko is a big proponent of what system in Russia?

5. What is Germany running low on in the summer of 1944?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does Rhoda ask Pug for a divorce?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are the characters of Rhoda and Pam the antithesis of each other? What seems to motivate each woman's relationship with Pug?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss how World War II plays a central role in the story, more than just a backdrop or a mere setting, but rather as equally important as any character in the story.

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