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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 does a farmer toss into the train car that Natalie is riding to Auschwitz?

2. What does Aaron tell the new director that the music department at Theresienstadt needs?

3. What is the name of the SS officer who is in charge of uncovering the mass graves and burning the bodies?

4. Where is the clipper Pug is traveling on to Russia diverted to?

5. When does the Red Cross visit Theresienstadt?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aster do during battle to show himself to be less than honorable?

2. What act of kindness strikes Natalie as she is being transported in a cattle car from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz?

3. Why does Rhoda ask Pug for a divorce?

4. What does General Yevlenko tell Pug about what has happened in Leningrad?

5. What happens when Aaron and Natalie meet with Eichmann during their stay at Theresienstadt?

6. How are Slote's request to help the Jews received by the State Department?

7. What ordeal does Natalie go through before she learns that Louis is not dead?

8. How does Louis make the German soldier guarding them on the train laugh?

9. Why are the children at Madame Rosen's orphanage rounded up by the Nazis?

10. How does Mutterperl die, leaving Berel alone to escape?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How are both the flaws and the depths of relationships in the novel magnified during war?

Essay Topic 2

Who is the true hero of War and Remembrance and why?

Essay Topic 3

What does the character of Byron, an American married to an Auschwitz survivor, represent in the novel? What does Louis represent as the son of these two?

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