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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. Leslie disagrees with the plans of _____________who believes the Jews can all be moved from Germany.

2. What is the name of Leslie Slote's friend in the State Department?

3. Pam and Pug are moving into a Washington apartment that formerly belong to whom?

4. While unpacking Pug's things together at the new apartment, Rhoda and Pam hear of whose death?

5. Whom does Leslie Slote write a letter to, resigning from his position in the Foreign Service?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does a doctor Aaron meets compare Nazi Germany to the Ku Klux Klan?

2. What does Madeline reveal about their parents' marriage in the letter she writes to Byron?

3. What does Pug discover when he asks other Americans in Iran about Rhoda and Peters?

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

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

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

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

8. What was Natalie's job while she was at Auschwitz?

9. Why does Rhoda ask Pug for a divorce?

10. How does Aaron manage to get some better food on the train when he is being transported to Auschwitz from Theresienstadt?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the final thoughts Wouk leaves the reader with after the long journey through World War II.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Wouk highlights many of the harsh realities of the plight of the Jews during World War II through the story of Natalie and Aaron.

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