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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 is Margit wearing on her head when she and Dita are reunited in Chapter 29?

2. At the beginning of Chapter 30, what are the prisoners given to eat for an entire day?

3. How many freight trains are used to bring the Hungarian jews into the Lager in Chapter 25?

4. In Chapter 24, when Rudi and Fred escape their hiding place, how close is the nearest guard tower?

5. In Chapter 17, how many people from the September group are transferred to the guarantine camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 23, how close do Rudi and Fred come to being captured?

2. How do Pestek and Lederek escape in Chapter 22?

3. Who does Schmulewski want to start an uprising and why?

4. What is something that Mengele is celebrated for in Chapter 21?

5. What does Dita realize about Profess Morgenstern in Chapter 17?

6. In Chapter 22, what do the prisoners have to observe and why?

7. What are Renee's thoughts about Viktor, the SS guard?

8. In Ota's book, The Painted Wall, what is said about Hirsch's death?

9. What does Dita discover in Chapter 32 when she goes to find Margit and her father?

10. In Chapter 20, what falls from the sky, and how does Miriam Edelstein describe what falls?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel is told from a third-person limited point of view. How does the author’s choice to use that point of view affect the story and what readers know about characters and events?

Essay Topic 2

Dita sees her mother as a quiet woman who just accepts life no matter how difficult it becomes. What type of person does Liesl seem to be? When does Liesl speak up and make her opinion known? How does what Dita’s mother say reveal her to be a different person than Dita had realized? What is revealed about the person she has become? How do Liesl's circumstances change her?

Essay Topic 3

The novel mostly takes place in concentration camps. What feelings or attitudes does the setting evoke for characters? Is the setting a neutral background, not important to the novel, or does the setting take on the role of a character?

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