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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. With what is Anna's father frustrated?

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

3. Where is Anna living in Chapter 1?

4. Why does Anna's family move out of where they are staying?

5. With what is Anna's father constantly adsorbed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anna's father feel when he returns from Paris and why? What does he want to do and how does Anna's mother feel about that?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the family doing at the beginning of Chapter 3 and who helps them?

8. What does Onkel Julius have to tell when he visits and why is the family's finances troubled?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think it is important that "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" was written? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think the story accomplished what the author set out to do? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Explain why you might or might not read another book by this author about another young Jewish person. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Anna is upset that she cannot find her father. Eventually Anna's mother explains to her and Max that their father has left for Prague because he fears that if the Nazis win the upcoming election he would be in danger, along with his family. Anna's mother swears her children to secrecy. They must tell no one where he has gone.

1. How do you think it affects a nine year old girl who cannot find her father who is normally there? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think at nine years old Anna was old enough to understand the danger her father might face? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think it was wise for Anna's mother to tell her children the truth and swear them to secrecy? Does it seem difficult to imagine children that age being able to keep such a big secret? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

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