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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. Who is the high-ranking SS officer who is coming to inspect Auschwitz?

2. What are the men called who are emaciated and close to dying?

3. The Northampton and several other ships are off the coast of _________ when they take heavy torpedo fire.

4. Where did Pug and Pam Tudsbury first meet?

5. Whom was Talky's last story about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What concern about the Castelnuovo family does Natalie express to Rabinovitz?

2. What effect does hearing Pam's voice included on a broadcast with Talky have on Pug?

3. Why is Leslie Slote surprised to see Selma at the home of Britton Treville?

4. What does the Commandant of Auschwitz note about the women prisoners as the techniques for killing the Jews is honed?

5. What does Byron Henry later learn about the captain of the Devilfish after they are attacked?

6. What does Pam tell Rhoda when they meet for breakfast in Hollywood?

7. When does Aaron Jastrow finally come to the realization that Natalie was right to distrust Dr. Beck?

8. Describe the poignant scene at the end of Chapter 23.

9. How does Pug end up headed back to Washington after losing the Northampton?

10. Where is Natalie Henry as War and Remembrance opens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"Our little earth contains traces of the primordial ash of creation, powerful in handful sizes to wipe us all out: and human nature contains traces of savagery, persisting in advanced society, which can use the stuff to wipe us out." Discuss what Wouk means by this statement in the last chapter.

Essay Topic 2

How was the "Wannsee Protocol" used to convey the horror of what happened in the German death camps from the dual vantage point of being in the thick of the war and the wisdom of hindsight?

Essay Topic 3

How does Pug show himself to be an honorable person in both his military career and his personal life? What aspect of the war and of the American persona of this time period is represented through the character of Pug Henry?

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