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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are they told when the truck stops?
(a) They can shower.
(b) They are free to go.
(c) They need to start digging.
(d) They must wait here for several more days.

2. How many people are left at the opening to Chapter 25?
(a) Just the bald men and Lina's family.
(b) A few people and fewer guards.
(c) Most of the people are still there.
(d) Two families and one guard.

3. What drawing that Lina did once infuriated Lina's father?
(a) Stalin in a Santa Claus suit.
(b) Stalin hanging from a noose.
(c) Elena's family huddled in fear.
(d) Stalin in a clown suit.

4. Who takes care of doing what has to be done concerning Ona's baby?
(a) Elena.
(b) Lina.
(c) The bald man.
(d) Miss Grybas.

5. Why are two of the prisoners in danger?
(a) They are not Russians.
(b) They make critical statements about Stalin.
(c) They can't walk.
(d) They are talking loudly.

6. Where does the truck go from Lina's house?
(a) To the prison.
(b) To the airport.
(c) To the hospital.
(d) To the morgue.

7. Who does Elena ignore?
(a) Her best friend.
(b) Her old schoolteacher.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her uncle.

8. What are they forced to do?
(a) Sit back to back and be tied.
(b) Gather food from a field.
(c) Undress in front of the soldiers.
(d) Burn their old clothes.

9. What made Lina angry about her conversation with her father?
(a) That the best methods of food production were ignored.
(b) The way Stalin took the land away from individuals.
(c) That the people in this area of Russia are considered inferior.
(d) That peasants are considered expendable.

10. Who does the bald man say is worse than Stalin?
(a) Hitler.
(b) The last tsar.
(c) Mussolini.
(d) No one.

11. What does Lina realize about her parents' plans?
(a) To escape the country.
(b) To hide among Christian friends.
(c) To appeal to Stalin for clemency.
(d) That they had made no plans.

12. What does Elena learn about Germany?
(a) They have invaded England.
(b) They have invaded Switzerland.
(c) They have surrendered.
(d) They have invaded Lithuania.

13. What does Lina's father give Lina?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Dried fruit and several books.
(c) Ham and warm clothes.
(d) Dried beef and chocolate.

14. Who is in the hut where Lina's family is assigned?
(a) An old woman.
(b) A young man.
(c) A young woman.
(d) No one.

15. Where is the farming area where the trucks arrive?
(a) Near Lubovitch.
(b) Near Altai.
(c) Near Luanas.
(d) Near Minsk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interests Jonas about the farm?

2. What does Ona do when they are loaded back on the trucks?

3. What does Lina's father say when she signs the drawing?

4. How many people does Lina count in the train car?

5. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?

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