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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 call does the kestrel make?

2. In "Break," what does Clara's family have to eat for Shabbos?

3. How much will Clara earn in "Sweatshop" for working 10 hours a day for seven days a week?

4. What exams does Clara pass in "Alight"?

5. How many days did Clara work in "Rise and Fall" that she did not get paid for?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Celebration," what job does Clara get and what does it pay?

2. What decision does Clara come to in "Wrestle" and why?

3. What does Clara tell her father when he orders her to come home after work and help her mother clean?

4. How will Rosh Hashanah be celebrated on pages 202-203?

5. In "Look Around You," how are the Lemlichs struggling to survive, and what does Clara think would help the family?

6. What choice does Clara struggle with in "Choose"?

7. How does the foreman steal time from the workers?

8. Why does Clara spend time in jail?

9. How does Nathan appear when he finally comes home?

10. How much work can be done by hand and by a machine, and how does that affect the demands of the boss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The only work Clara could find was in a sweatshop. What problems were there with working in sweatshops? What did greed have to do with the conditions in the factories?

Essay Topic 2

Clara’s family was Jewish and they lived by many traditions. What were some traditions that the family followed? What traditions did the family have to abandon and why?

Essay Topic 3

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not a biography or non-fiction book?

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