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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. What does Anna not like about playing with the girls at school?

2. What does Anna think has happened to her pink rabbit?

3. With whom do Anna's parents leave her and Max when they go to Paris?

4. Where does Anna's mother think the family may end up for a while?

5. What do Anna and Max decide to tell their friends about their father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

6. What does Anna's mother tell her and her brother about the news her mother gives them?

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

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

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

There are six major characters in this story. Choose one of the following questions in a well-developed, cohesive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:

1. Compare and contrast Anna and Max.

2. Compare and contrast Anna's father with Onkel Julius.

3. Compare and contrast Frau Zwirn with Anna's mother.

Essay Topic 2

Hitler was able to turn the German people against the Jews by creating and encouraging stereotypes and labels about the Jewish people.

1. Refute or defend the following statement: Stereotypes about people are generally true. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. How do you think stereotyping or generalization in schools can affect students? How might younger German children being taught stereotyping about the Jewish people can affect those children? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. The only statement that can be true about a population is if that population consist of only one person. Discuss this statement in view of the stereotyping of Jewish people.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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