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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 removed from Aaron before he is cremated?

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

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

4. Madame Rosen's orphanage is located outside of __________.

5. Where do Natalie and Aaron try to flee to when Beck shows up in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Our little earth contains traces of the primordial ash of creation, powerful in handful sizes to wipe us all out: and human nature contains traces of savagery, persisting in advanced society, which can use the stuff to wipe us out." Discuss what Wouk means by this statement in the last chapter.

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

How does Pug show himself to be an honorable person in both his military career and his personal life? What aspect of the war and of the American persona of this time period is represented through the character of Pug Henry?

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