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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 business has offered Anna's father work?

2. What does Onkel Julius tell them about Germany when he visits?

3. What is the name of Anna's grandmother's dog?

4. What do Anna and Max have to do when they start school in Switzerland?

5. What does Anna hear her father say when she is awake one morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What must Anna and Max do before they leave?

3. How is Max doing in school and with whom does he spend his time playing?

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

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

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

7. What does Anna's father explain to her about Switzerland and his work and what does he and Anna decide they are?

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

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

10. What happens to Pumpel and how does Omama feel about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1. Why do you think many hate Jews? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think hatred and genocide of any group of people is ever justified? Explain. Do you think anti-Semitism still exists in the United States? Explain.

3. Do you think the Jewish people have any responsibility for the German attitude towards them in the 20st century? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Without Adolf Hitler's rise to power, WWII may never have occurred--at least on the European front; therefore, an understanding of the state of Germany at that time is essential to understanding many of the references in the book. Discuss the following:

1. Research and write an informative essay on the state of Germany during the 2 decades prior to the outbreak of WWII. What is the economy like? What are the major political parties? What do they stand for? What is the make-up of the German society as far as religious, racial and class?

2. How do you think the conditions in Germany before the Nazis led to the emergence of the Nazis to power? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think the way Hitler used the Jewish people as a focus for the Germans on a scapegoat for the conditions in Germany could have been done with any group of people? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Anna overhears her father say that the Nazis have won the elections and that they won't be going back to Germany. Hitler has had their property confiscated. He has stolen Anna's stuffed pink rabbit, which makes her very angry.

1. How do you think it feels to a child to know she will never see her home again? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

2. Why do you think Anna focused her anger on her pink rabbit being gone? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. What was the advantages, financially, to Hitler to declare Jewish property forfeit and thus confiscate it for the government? Use examples from "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" and your own life to support your answer.

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