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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Lina distract the soldier watching Elena?
(a) She pretends to faint.
(b) She starts crying.
(c) She complains about having to use the bathroom.
(d) She pretends to throw up.

2. Why does Elena pull Lina away from a guard?
(a) He is hitting her.
(b) He is touching her.
(c) He is trying to put her on the truck.
(d) He is trying to make her go into the woods.

3. What does Andrius do and Lina and Jonas go along?
(a) To ask where they are going.
(b) To find some food.
(c) To try to escape.
(d) To search for his father.

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

5. What does the bald man ask Jonas to do?
(a) Shoot him.
(b) Tell him a story.
(c) Read to him.
(d) Smother him.

6. Why does Andrius pull Jonas away?
(a) So he doesn't see what happens to Ona.
(b) So he is not run over by a truck coming in with more prisoners.
(c) So he is not hit by a guard for being too slow.
(d) So he is not separated from his family.

7. Why do they wait for hours at their next stop?
(a) For a woman to give birth.
(b) For the men's truck to arrive.
(c) For the train to arrive.
(d) For some papers to arrive.

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

9. How long does the officer give the family to pack?
(a) One hour.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) No time.
(d) 2 days.

10. What happens one day when the train comes to a stop?
(a) The people are set free.
(b) The people are massacred.
(c) The people are turned over to the Germans.
(d) The people find themselves in open countryside.

11. What does Elena tell Mrs. Rimas?
(a) She hopes to send a letter out of the nearby post office.
(b) She hopes her husband will be released soon.
(c) She hopes her mother will find a way to bring them to France.
(d) She is going to start growing her own food.

12. What does Jonas do without complaint?
(a) Carries a large suitcase.
(b) Carris the dog.
(c) Hides in the cupboard.
(d) Puts on three layers of clothing.

13. About what does Jonas worry while waiting for Elena?
(a) That they should have gone with Elena.
(b) That they should try to get more food.
(c) That their house back in their homeland is being ransacked.
(d) That they should try to escape.

14. What are the men in one car doing?
(a) Rioting.
(b) Fighting the soldiers.
(c) Crying.
(d) Singing the Lithuanian national anthem.

15. To what summer program did Lina once apply for entrance?
(a) Music school in Kuanas.
(b) Sports program.
(c) Art program in Minsk.
(d) Art program in Vilnius.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interests Jonas about the farm?

2. What is grown on this farm?

3. What does Lina's father tell her to continue doing?

4. What does Lina realize about the possibility of running?

5. Who directs the packing?

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