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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 can Clara earn money doing in "Words"?

2. What language is Clara nearly fluent in after years of stolen moments?

3. Where did Clara and her family have to strip and shower in "Spark"?

4. What does Clara teach Miriam in exchange for borrowing Miriam's father's copy of The Cossacks?

5. In "A Favor," how many people were murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Clara describe her fifth day at sea?

2. What happens during the pogrom?

3. How did Clara learn to read and write Yiddish?

4. What does Clara remember doing on Friday afternoons?

5. Why was Clara jealous in "Look Away"?

6. Why do Clara and her brothers have to hide in the woods?

7. What did Clara say and do when her parents learned that all their kosher food was gone?

8. In "Strangers," what did Clara believe that the sea would smell like, and what did it smell like?

9. Where do Clara and her family live?

10. How old was Nathan when he got sick, and what did Clara do to help him get better?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Clara meets Joe at a labor meeting. How does a relationship develop between Clara and Joe? How does the relationship help Clara?

Essay Topic 2

Clara is sometimes compared to Joan of Arc. Who was Joan of Arc? In what ways was Clara like Joan of Arc?

Essay Topic 3

Allusions are figures of speech used when an author mentions a person, place, or thing, but does not provide background information about the person, place, or thing. What are some allusions that the author uses in the book? Is research required to understand the allusions the author makes? Does the use of allusions make understanding what is happening difficult?

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