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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. Where does Anna's family move?

2. What happens the second time the German children play with Anna and Max?

3. Where does the train stop?

4. Where does Anna's father think they might go if they leave Switzerland?

5. With what is Anna's father frustrated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the family spend the next two weeks talking about and what do Anna's mother and father do after that? What do Anna's parents do everyday?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What must Anna and Max do before they leave?

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

9. Where is Anna's family in Chapter 5, in what do they stay and what do they do one day?

10. How is Max doing in school and with whom does he spend his time playing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What is a plot? What are the most important elements of a plot and their definition? Do all novels have a plot? Why or why not?

2. Write a brief synopsis of the plot of "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit", identifying where the various elements of the plot occur (Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution or denouement). Do you find it difficult to identify the plot? Why or why not? What about the various elements of the plot?

3. Identify the major sub-plots and their elements in the book. (The subplots may not contain every element of a major plot). Do the sub-plots add to the main plot? Why or why not. Are the sub-plots interesting in and of themselves? Why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

Anna overhears her father say that the Nazis have won the elections and that they won't be going back to Germany. Hitler has had their property confiscated. He has stolen Anna's stuffed pink rabbit, which makes her very angry.

1. How do you think it feels to a child to know she will never see her home again? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Anna focused her anger on her pink rabbit being gone? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. What was the advantages, financially, to Hitler to declare Jewish property forfeit and thus confiscate it for the government? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Onkel Julius visits as well, and explains to them that the Nazis have burned all the books of prominent Jewish intellectuals, including Anna's father's books. Her father even has trouble publishing in Switzerland because the Swiss are so intent on maintaining their neutrality with the Nazis. Nonetheless, their family manages to survive financially.

1. What are the political advantages to burning books for a totalitarian government? Use examples from the text, research and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think it was wise of the Swiss not to publish Anna's father's writings? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Some would say by remaining neutral in the second World War Switzerland acted as a coward. What do you think are some of the reasons a country might want to remain neutral in a war? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

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