THE BIG, BAD, BRIAR ROSE FINAL TEST.
Directions: Put your answers
on a separate sheet of paper.
1. The fairy tale, “Briar
Rose,” most closely follows the American story of:
A. Rumplestiltskin
B. Sleeping Beauty
C. Cinderella
D. Shrek
2. Stan quotes Shakespeare
and says, “The past is prologue.” What does he mean by this?
A. the past is simply history.
B. history makes good stories.
C. what happened in the past may predict what will
happen later.
D. most stories don’t end “happily ever after.”
3. Gemma’s
story of “Briar Rose,” somehow incorporates elements of
A. the Holocaust
B. the Russian Revolution
C. the Civil War
D. the simple life of European peasants
4. Gemma
is like Briar Rose because:
A. both are cursed unjustly
B. both are saved by a prince
C. both experience a death-like sleep
D. all of these
5. Unlike Briar Rose, Gemma is put to sleep
A. by her friends to save her
B. by Jewish partisans
C. by an evil spell
D. by gas fumes in a moving van
6. What is the author’s
purpose for writing this novel?
A. to entertain
B. to inform
C. to persuade
D. to describe
7. How is this story similar
to Of Mice and Men?
A. both have characters telling a story about their
life.
B. both have characters that
are not respected, are punished by society.
C. both have characters
searching for a better life than what they lead.
D. all of these
E. none of the above
8. Why would Gemma be so secretive about her life?
A. she honestly doesn’t remember much of her earlier
days.
B. she was so scared by the Nazis, she still holds
back information from everyone.
C. she wants to move forward with her life, not
relive the past.
D. all of these
E. none of these
9. One of the themes of this
book may be:
A. Life can be like a fairy tale.
B. Sometimes we must believe the unbelievable.
C. War sometimes brings out the worst in people.
D. War sometimes brings out the best in people.
E. all of these
F. none of these
10. This character shows an
old Schloss
to Becca.
A. Magda
B. Father Stashu
C. Josef Potoki
D. none of these
11. This person tells Becca his/her story of the Holocaust.
A. Magda
B. Father Stashu
C. Josef Potoki
D. an unnamed man of Chelmno
12. Josef convinces those in
his partisan group to:
A. try to rescue prisoners
who are left alive from the Chelmno camp.
B. hide in the woods until the war was over.
C. engage in a suicide raid
against the SS.
D. blow up a breakwater in an
important harbor.
13. While hidden in the
woods, Josef’s group saw about how many bodies brought out to the mass grave in one day near
Chelmno?
A. about 100
B. about 1000
C. about 10,000
D. about 100,000
14. Aron
Mandlestein marries
A. Eve
B. Sylvia
C. Magda
D. Shana
15. Who actually saved Gemma from the mass grave?
A. the Avenger
B. Josef
C. Magda
D. Birch
16. What caused the princess
to lose her memories?
A. a spell
B. gas
C. a broken marriage
D. physical injury
17. Ksiezniczka
joins the partisans because she says:
A. “I have no where to go.”
B. “No one who is wanting
me.”
C. “I do not want to be sent on.”
D. all of these
18. Josef’s partisan group are killed:
A. while sleeping in the woods.
B. attacking a supply depot.
C. as they washed by the
D. at the mass grave.
19. Two weeks after most of
partisans were killed from his group, Josef discovers:
A. Eve is pregnant.
B. the secret of Chelmno.
C. The United States army is
closing in.
D.
all of these
20. Josef helps Eve by:
A. giving her forged papers in the
name of Eva Potoki.
B. giving her his step-father’s
ring.
C. giving her his passport photograph.
D. all of these
E. none of these
21. Why is Josef compared to
driftwood when he was in Sachenhausen?
A. he had no definite plans.
B. he went along with other’s plans.
C. he made no decisions.
D. all of these
22. Josef started to pay
attention to flowers in:
A. the woods while a partisan.
B. theaters while he was a playwright.
C. Sachenhausen.
D. the Pathologie.
23. The author says the
reason Josef is not killed with the rest of the partisans is because:
A. God has a sense of humor.
B. Josef is a coward.
C. he was uncommonly lucky.
D. none of these.
24. Becca
concludes that the story told to her by Josef is basically:
A. true
B. untrue
25. We may assume that Becca’s life turns out “happily ever after” because:
A. Stan gives her a kiss at the end.
B. She learns the history of Gemma.
C. She has material to write her story for the
newspaper.
D. all of these.