This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7: My First Escape; My Brother Bunio, Guralis and Radishes, The First.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must the family now do to survive?
(a) Move from shelter to shelter.
(b) Alicia's mother works as a servant in a Polish home.
(c) Send all the children to work.
(d) Haggle and sell whatever they can find.

2. What keeps Alicia's mother from going to the market to sell?
(a) Malaria.
(b) A bout of dysentry.
(c) The flu.
(d) Pnemonia.

3. Why do the Germans soon arrive in Alicia's town?
(a) They are breaking the treaty with the Russians.
(b) The agreement with the Russians has ended.
(c) They want to take over Poland.
(d) They want to assist the Ukrainians in getting back at the Poles.

4. Why does Alicia give up her radishes?
(a) She decides to give it to starving children.
(b) She becomes sick.
(c) She knows her mother needs to eat more of the radishes than her.
(d) She trades them for more clothes.

5. At first how did life change under Russian occupation?
(a) Jews were not allowed to congregate.
(b) Jews had to wear the Star of David.
(c) Russians were put in positions of power.
(d) Pictures of Lenin and Stalin were posted everywhere.