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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. How is Max's time at school?
(a) He is almost completely unengaged.
(b) He is doing very well academically.
(c) He is captain of the soccer team.
(d) He is making a lot of friends.

2. What does Anna hear her mother talking about with her grandmother?
(a) That her father is out of work.
(b) That her grandmother is returning to Germany.
(c) The horrible things happening to Jewish refugees.
(d) About the lack of money.

3. What has Hitler done with the family's property?
(a) Put a lien on it.
(b) Had it destroyed.
(c) Gave it to a Nazi party member.
(d) Has it confiscated.

4. What does Anna think about what she is learning from her teacher?
(a) He is interesting and she has learned a lot.
(b) She thinks he is a little young to be teaching.
(c) He does not seem to teach them much.
(d) She'd rather have a woman teacher.

5. Why does Anna's family move out of where they are staying?
(a) It has been condemned.
(b) It is too noisy for her father to work.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) It no longer allows Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what is Anna's father frustrated?

2. Where is Anna living in Chapter 1?

3. About what are the feelings from question #59?

4. Where does the train stop?

5. What does Anna think her life is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why is there some tension between Anna and Vreneli?

4. What happens to Pumpel and how does Omama feel about it?

5. How does Anna like school in Switerland, who are her friends and with whom does she prefer to play?

6. How is Anna's father feeling about his work and Germany?

7. How do Anna and Max experience anti-Semitism in school?

8. What almost ruins the family's trip to Paris and what do they think might be the reason?

9. What does Anna's father tell her about her behavior and what do they learn about the German government and her father?

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

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