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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Harvey Goldman?
(a) A refugee interred in the refugee camp in Oswego.
(b) Becca's maternal grandfather.
(c) The mayor of Oswego.
(d) Gemma's first love.

2. What is Brda?
(a) A museum.
(b) A restaurant.
(c) A school.
(d) A hotel.

3. According to Gemma, what is still clinging to the palace walls when the prince arrives there?
(a) Mold.
(b) Insects.
(c) A mist.
(d) Paint.

4. What lie does Becca tell Shana in Chapter 16?
(a) That she is going overseas for work.
(b) That she is going to rehab.
(c) That she is going to Europe on vacation.
(d) That she is having plastic surgery.

5. According to Gemma, what does a peasant warn the prince not to do?
(a) Enter the kingdom, as no one who goes in survives.
(b) Eat anything he did not cook himself.
(c) Leave his horse behind.
(d) Kiss the princess.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is Becca told that Gemma did not talk about at the refugee camp?

2. According to Magda, what happened to a teacher who gave graphic details about the concentration camp?

3. According to the person who recognizes Gemma in the photograph, what did she have with her at the camp?

4. What does Gemma say of the people in the castle in Chapter 23?

5. What does Becca spend her first day in Poland doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Becca point out that Gemma had no tattoos?

2. In Chapter 24, why does Josef ask Becca to visit his house, and for how long?

3. What does the priest in Chapter 22 tell Becca about Chelmno?

4. What do Becca and Magda discover about the people in Chelmno?

5. What frightens the girls on Halloween in Chapter 21?

6. What part of the story does Gemma tell Becca in Chapter 11?

7. Where does Gemma tell Becca the Briar Rose story in Chapter 15? Who else listens, and what does he object to?

8. In Chapter 20, what does Magda say inspired her to return to her own Jewish roots?

9. In Chapter 15, what is the song in Gemma's version of the Briar Rose story about?

10. What horrifies Harvey about Gemma's last known address, the town of Kulmhof?

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