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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. Who explains to Anna and Max where their father is?

2. Who is Anna's teacher?

3. What does Anna think about what she is learning from her teacher?

4. Why has Anna's father gone away?

5. Why is the passport dangerous for them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Anna's mother tell her children to do when they are being checked and what is the end result at that checkpoint?

3. Why does Anna fight with her teacher, who gives her a hard time and what does her mother do?

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

5. What do Max and Anna think about the anti-Semitism and what does their mother say about it?

6. How does Anna get sick and what happens when she is sick? What does she hear?

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

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

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anna and her brother Max had some problems keeping up in the education system in France.

1. How important do you think education is to the German people at that time? Do you think education still is important in Germany? Why or why not? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

2. How do you think Anna and Max felt when their mother said they could not go to public schools? Is there any indication of their reaction? How would you feel under the same circumstances? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Research a little on the Jewish culture's attitude towards education. Would their ideas about learning cause the school children to feel better or worse about being excluded from the schools in pre-WWII Germany? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

1. What does it mean to be Jewish? Is it a cultural, racial, or religious designation...or some combination of the three? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

2. What contributions have the Jewish people made to humanity over the last 1000 years? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Compare and contrast the major beliefs of the Jewish faith with Christianity. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Anna is a nine year old Jewish girl living in Berlin in the winter of 1932-33. She has a brother named Max and her father is a famous writer and poet whose notoriety brings her family attention. Germany is on the brink of an election between the Nazis and the Sozis. If the Nazis win, Hitler will come to power.

1. What do you think are the biggest fears a nine year old girl in Anna's situation will face? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. How do you think having a famous parent affects a child's life? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. What do you think is meant by the statement "whose notoriety brings her family attention"? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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