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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 does Anna's mother have trouble keeping up with in the family?
2. What does Anna want to do in Chapter 14?
3. How does Anna feel about her French and the exam?
4. Where does Anna's mother want to go in Chapter 22?
5. Why does Anna's family have the Christmas they have in Chapter 20?
Short Essay Questions
1. With is Anna's mother learning to do and with what does she have some problems?
2. With what family does Anna's family spend time and why?
3. How do Anna and Max finally go to school and what is difficult for them?
4. What does Anna want to do about schooling and why can't she?
5. How does Anna's mother get some cloth for clothing?
6. What disturbs Anna's father and how is the situation resolved?
7. What does Francine do with Anna when they visit and what does Anna do that pleases her Aunt Sarah?
8. With reflection, what does Anna decide about her childhood?
9. How is the family's first Christmas in Paris and why is it that way?
10. How does Anna's father feel about the cloth her mother gets and why?
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
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.
Essay Topic 3
Hitler was able to turn the German people against the Jews by creating and encouraging stereotypes and labels about the Jewish people.
1. Refute or defend the following statement: Stereotypes about people are generally true. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
2. How do you think stereotyping or generalization in schools can affect students? How might younger German children being taught stereotyping about the Jewish people can affect those children? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.
3. The only statement that can be true about a population is if that population consist of only one person. Discuss this statement in view of the stereotyping of Jewish people.
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