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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 Germany running low on in the summer of 1944?

2. When asked, on the train ride to Auschwitz, Aaron compares Hitler to _________.

3. What is the name of the Japanese fleet commander who faces Pug and Byron in battle?

4. What do the SS officers threaten to do at Theresienstadt to keep Natalie in line?

5. What illness is Aaron diagnosed as having while in German custody in France?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the children at Madame Rosen's orphanage rounded up by the Nazis?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happens when Aaron and Natalie meet with Eichmann during their stay at Theresienstadt?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this digital, high-tech age, would it be easier to round up and mistreat a large group of people? Are there modern day examples like the mass killings of the Jews in the 1940s? What does Wouk seem to give as the reason these atrocities can happen?

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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