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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. After occupation, what must everyone use?

2. No family can afford to take in a Jew without what?

3. Casper begins setting his clocks according to what?

4. Who refuses to help Corrie hide a mother and a young infant?

5. What does Corrie lack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Corrie learn about Willem? How does the family get involved in hiding Jews?

2. What is life like for the Jews in Haarlem after occupation?

3. Where does Corrie live? With whom does she live?

4. What is Corrie's childhood like? With whom does she live?

5. Where does Willem go? How does this affect Corrie's life? What happens when she goes to visit him?

6. What is life like after occupation? What do the Ten Booms hide?

7. What does the family travel together to do? Who does Corrie see on this trip?

8. What is happening on the day that the novel opens? Describe the events.

9. How does Betsie's illness affect Corrie? What changes do the sisters make in their home and the watch shop?

10. With whom does Willem arrive? What has happened to this individual? How do people interpret this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Casper does not take the offer for his release from prison? What consequences does this decision have? How do his children feel about Casper's decision to remain in prison?

Essay Topic 2

What is life like for Jews in hiding? Describe the hiding place in the Ten Booms' house. What other alternatives do Jews in Holland have other than going into hiding?

Essay Topic 3

Corrie and Betsie believed that God directed their lives. Why do you think that God allowed these sisters to be arrested? What purpose might it have had? How did Corrie and Betsie feel about their imprisonment?

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