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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 is so special about Anna's essay?
2. How does Max feel about learning French?
3. As what does Anna's father see the cloth from Sarah?
4. What is Anna's mother becoming in the house?
5. Why is Grete gloomy?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Anna's class like and how are her first attempts at her school assignments?
2. How does Anna get new shoes?
3. Who is the children's new teacher, and how has that teacher's life changed?
4. How does Max feel about French?
5. What disturbs Anna's father and how is the situation resolved?
6. How does Anna's father feel about the cloth her mother gets and why?
7. How is Anna's family doing by the spring, what are they doing and who in the household feels gloomy? Why does she feel gloomy?
8. How does Anna do on her elementary examinations?
9. With what family does Anna's family spend time and why?
10. Explain the French elementary school exam.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Characters are an important part of what makes "When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit" interesting. Discuss the following:
1. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Anna. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
2. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Anna's father. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
3. Thoroughly discuss and analyze the character of Max. What are his strengths? His weaknesses? How does he contribute to the plot? Is he a sympathetic character? Is he ever likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
4. Thoroughly discuss and analyze Anna's mother. What are her strengths? Her weaknesses? How does she contribute to the plot? Is she a sympathetic character? Is she always likable? Never likable? Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss one of the following:
1. Do you think racism still exists in Germany? What about the United States? Why or why not? Use examples from the text, from research and your own life to support your answer.
2. Discuss in depth several things that you can do in your own life to help stop prejudice against any group of people. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. According to the hate crime law, any person harming another person and the primary motivation is prejudice or hatred that crime is more serious than the same act against a person that does not have that motivation. Do you think this is a good law? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
4. Do you think anti-Semitism is racism? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
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