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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 hear her father say when she is awake one morning?

2. What is the year in Chapter 1?

3. About what does Anna fight with her teacher in Chapter 7?

4. What does Anna's father say to her about Switzerland?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Anna's mother say they will probably go, what do Anna and Max tell the other children about their father and where does their father arrive safely?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. Research pre-WWII Germany and learn about the legal, political and human resistance to Hitler's growing repression and control of Germany. Do you think Anna's father taking his family out of Germany was a form of resistance? Why or why not? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

2. How much resistance is offered? Who offered the most--religious institutions? Social institutions? Political groups? Use examples from the text, research and your own life to support your answer.

3. How do the educational, social and religious institutions oppose Hitler? Are there Protests? Legal injunctions? Elections? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

4. Why do you think those groups/individuals fail to halt Hitler's advance to power? 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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