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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 is Alicia completely devastated at the end of Chapter 18?

2. How does Bella's friend help Alicia?

3. How does Alicia reward Wujciu for his kindness and putting his life at risk?

4. Why is Alicia given thousands of rubles?

5. After finding Bella and her son Danny, what does Alicia begin doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Alicia escape?

2. While hanging out with her new friends, what happens to Alicia?

3. How does Alicia take the news that Milek has died?

4. What is different about Mrs. Taub's six year old son?

5. How does Alicia's tooth ache lead Alicia to reconnect with family?

6. Although Alicia becomes sick and is forced to stay at the Hotel Straubinger, how does she feel?

7. What hopeful news about the resistance does Alicia hear?

8. What is the very difficult practice that Alicia must endure to ensure food for not only her and her mother, but also the others living with the beekeeper?

9. How does Alicia work to help Mrs. Taub's son?

10. What adventures does Alicia have while traveling to Chernovtsy.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alicia is forced to spend much of her early adolescence and teenage years running from the Nazis and protecting her family. Had she not been forced to endure this kind of life, how would Alicia spent most of her time as a young Jewish girl and woman in Poland?

Essay Topic 2

Alicia is lucky to find Poles and Ukrainians who agree to keep her background and whereabouts a secret.

- Name 3 groups of people that are able to help Alicia without endangering themselves.

- Then detail how exactly people were able to able to help Alicia and/or her mother.

- How do you think they might have risked their lives by helping Alicia?

Essay Topic 3

Inaction caused many people to die in World War II. For instance, so many Poles did nothing while their neighbors died. What is worse, doing nothing and saving no one or acting to save someone and failing. Does any character in the book, besides Alicia, risk everything to help save other Jews?

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