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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 do Daniel's family do to keep lice from spreading?

2. What book does Daniel take from the shelf at Rosa's group meeting place?

3. What happens to Rosa and her family the summer of 1944?

4. What is it about Rosa that is an act of defiance according to Daniel?

5. If deportations happen again, what does Rosa's group decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the tragedy of the kitchen workers at the sewing factory keeping the good vegetables for themselves?

2. Why does Auntie Leah decide not to leave her two girls?

3. What is the emotional impact of other countries refusal to accept Jews on Daniel's family?

4. Why is the scene with Daniel and his friends skirmish with the Hitler Youth boys important to the story?

5. Why is the radio important to Daniel's family?

6. How does Daniel's inability to promise Rosa he will hide when his family's deportation papers come demonstrate his love for them?

7. What does Daniel's photo album come to represent for him?

8. Why does Daniel say the Gestapo officer saw them as only insects?

9. What does the Hitler Youth uniform Oma Miriam makes for Daniel symbolize?

10. Why does Daniel's father insist they carry their belongings with them instead of doing what the Germans said and putting their belongings in the wagon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the importance of the Daniel's family members' deaths? Why is this event an important detail about the Germans' attitude toward Jews? Use the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

In what ways does Father's quiet wisdom and intelligence help his family survive during their time in Lodz? Be sure to include factual examples from the text.

Essay Topic 3

How does Daniel's depression after Uncle Peter's death mirror how the Jewish people all over Germany felt? What is similar? How does Daniel's few of his studies also mirror the hopelessness and bleak feelings of others during this time?Use the text to support your answer.

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