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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Trofimovsk?
(a) A fairly new research facility.
(b) A new canning plant.
(c) A weapons manufacture complex.
(d) The camp where the prisoners arrive.

2. What does Lina learn about Jonas?
(a) He has been conscripted for Stalin's army.
(b) He is very ill.
(c) He has been injured.
(d) He has escaped.

3. Who is Ulyushka?
(a) The doctor who visits once a month.
(b) The nurse who visits once a week.
(c) The old woman with whom Lina's family lives.
(d) The administrator of the farm.

4. How is Andrius able to stay at the camp?
(a) He does all the paperwork for the commandant.
(b) He prostitutes himself to the soldiers who like men.
(c) His mother prostitutes herself as a bribe.
(d) He pretends to be stupid.

5. What does Janina tell the bald man?
(a) Hitler might be killing Jews.
(b) Her family hid his daughter.
(c) Her family knows his son.
(d) Hitler is turning out to be worse than Stalin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Elena have Lina take Mr. Stalas?

2. What habit does Alexandras Lukas have?

3. What does Jonas give Andrius?

4. What does the bald man reveal?

5. How does Mr. Stalas act toward Lina?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Andrius and a Siberian woman help save Jonas' life?

2. What do the prisoners learn about the Japanese and Hitler?

3. How does Kretsky show his humanity after they have frightened the women?

4. Why does Elena collapse one day?

5. How do the soldiers harass and frighten the women who have been digging a large hole?

6. What does Lina learn from the bald man about their captivity?

7. What happens to Jonas?

8. What event makes Lina and Elena decide to stop asking for extra food for Jonas?

9. Why are the prisoners waked in the middle of the night and what do they do?

10. What news does Mrs. Rimas recieve in a letter and how is it coded?

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