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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 has Hitler done with the family's property?

2. How does Anna feel about her new school?

3. With what is Anna's father frustrated?

4. Why does Anna's mother learn knitting?

5. What does Anna think her life is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Anna fight with her teacher, who gives her a hard time and what does her mother do?

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

4. What does Anna's father tell her about her behavior and what do they learn about the German government and her father?

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

6. What does Anna's mother tell her children to do when they are being checked and what is the end result at that checkpoint?

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

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

The German Parliament house, the Reichstag, is burned down. The Nazis use the event to claim that only they could stop the "revolutionaries."

1. Do you think there is a chance the Nazis themselves burned down the Reichstag? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think the Nazis statement about stopping the revolutionaries seem to correlate to the Federal government of America enacting laws to "stop terrorism"? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Why do you think people are willing to give government more power when they are afraid? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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