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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 color of hair does the boy who chases her have?
2. What does her family do for Anna's tenth birthday?
3. With what is Anna's father constantly adsorbed?
4. What does everyone think of Anna's grandmother's dog?
5. Why does Anna's father have difficulty publishing his writings in Switzerland?
Short Essay Questions
1. What conversation does Anna hear between her mother and Omama and what does she resolve to do?
2. How is Anna's father feeling about his work and Germany?
3. 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?
4. What does Anna's mother tell her children to do when they are being checked and what is the end result at that checkpoint?
5. What does Anna's mother tell her and her brother about the news her mother gives them?
6. Why is there some tension between Anna and Vreneli?
7. What birthday does Anna have in Chapter 8, how does she celebrate and how does that go?
8. What does Onkel Julius have to tell when he visits and why is the family's finances troubled?
9. What happens to Anna's father in Chapter 1 and why?
10. What must Anna and Max do before they leave?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following:
1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?
2. Analyze and discuss "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if The White Boy Shuffle is a successful novel.
3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for young teens versus adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" a successful novel? What about young teens? What about Jewish people? German people?
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
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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