View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?
(a) Keep her baby while she tries to find some food for the child.
(b) Not give her baby to the soldiers.
(c) Help her escape.
(d) Help her care for her baby.

2. What does a grouchy woman in the group that Elena's family is in say?
(a) That maybe they are free to go.
(b) That Elena should not put on airs.
(c) That Elena and the others had made them seem weak.
(d) That they have been liberated by the Germans.

3. What does Lina know her father and Miss Grybas are on?
(a) A lorry.
(b) A secret committee.
(c) She knows nothing about them being on something.
(d) A list.

4. What is Lina thinking about at the opening of the novel?
(a) The way her father overprotected her.
(b) Her fifteenth birthday.
(c) The time leading up to being taken prisoner.
(d) The time her brother drowned.

5. What does Lina realize when her mother tells her to button her coat?
(a) That Lina is still in her nightgown.
(b) That their father has already been taken.
(c) That her cat ran out the front door.
(d) That Jonas is missing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when a man jumps off the truck?

2. What is obvious about Andrius when he gets back to their railroad car?

3. How long does the officer give the family to pack?

4. Who is Ona?

5. What does Lina realize her father meant when he told her to keep drawing?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 341 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample