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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. Why does Anna's family move out of where they are staying?
2. What do Anna and her father decide they might be?
3. Who will check their passports when the train stops?
4. What does Anna and Max call their grandmother?
5. Where does Anna's grandmother live?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Max doing in school and with whom does he spend his time playing?
2. What does Anna's mother tell her children to do when they are being checked and what is the end result at that checkpoint?
3. Why is there some tension between Anna and Vreneli?
4. What happens to Anna's father in Chapter 1 and why?
5. Why does Anna fight with her teacher, who gives her a hard time and what does her mother do?
6. How does Anna get sick and what happens when she is sick? What does she hear?
7. What is the family doing at the beginning of Chapter 3 and who helps them?
8. Why is her family famous?
9. What birthday does Anna have in Chapter 8, how does she celebrate and how does that go?
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
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
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.
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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