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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens the second time the German children play with Anna and Max?
(a) They ask the two to visit them at home.
(b) Their mother is not there.
(c) Their mother becomes angry.
(d) Anna accidentally gets her arm cut.

2. With what is Anna's father frustrated?
(a) Being unable to write as much as his boss wants him to write.
(b) Anna's mother not being able to get pregnant again.
(c) Being run out of his own country.
(d) Finding a synagogue for the family.

3. How does Anna feel about her new school?
(a) She mildly likes it.
(b) She hates it.
(c) She is indifferent to it.
(d) She enjoys it.

4. What type of feelings develop between Anna and Vrenli?
(a) Some tension.
(b) Teasing.
(c) Anger.
(d) Hurt.

5. What does Anna's father say to her about Switzerland?
(a) They are deporting Jews.
(b) They are going to turn him over to Hitler.
(c) They are going to enter the war.
(d) They probably won't stay there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Onkel Julius tell them about Germany when he visits?

2. What does the inspector do after he looks at their things?

3. Where is the place where Anna's family moves in Chapter 6?

4. How does Anna's father seem when he comes home in Chapter 11?

5. Why is the passport dangerous for them?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the first character introduced in the book, what year is it, how old is she and where does she live? Who is her sibling?

2. What conversation does Anna hear between her mother and Omama and what does she resolve to do?

3. Why is her family famous?

4. What happens to Anna's father in Chapter 1 and why?

5. What birthday does Anna have in Chapter 8, how does she celebrate and how does that go?

6. What does Anna's father explain to her about Switzerland and his work and what does he and Anna decide they are?

7. Where does Anna's father go in Chapter 10, and who watches the children when he is gone?

8. Where does Anna's family move from Zurich, who does she meet and what do she and Max do there?

9. In what city are Anna and her family's passports checked, and why might this be dangerous?

10. What train does Anna and her family board and what happens in Germany that day? How do the Nazis use that event?

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