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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Esther wash her hair with in Chapter 4?

2. How many days of mourning did Grandmother observe stretched out on the nari after Solomon died?

3. What did some girls bring the prisoners who slept in the schoolroom?

4. What territory were the prisoners in when the train stopped?

5. When did the Russians occupy Vilna?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Esther's house.

2. What did Esther pray when the moon came up the first night she spent at the gypsum mine?

3. Who were the people who lived in Siberia when the Polish people were taken there?

4. What news did the Rudomins learn from a soldier?

5. How did the Rudomins learn that Solomon had died? Another deportee from a labor camp, a former lawyer, came to see the Rudomins. He told them that Solomon had died from pneumonia.

6. Who took charge in the railroad car the Rudomins were packed into?

7. Why did Esther say that history was taught in Rubtsovsk with some curious omissions?

8. How did Great-grandmother Reisa die?

9. What did Grandmother and Mrs. Kaftal like to talk about?

10. How did Esther describe her Great-grandmother Reisa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 6, the Poles learned that they had received amnesty. Discuss why the Poles received amnesty and how it affected their lives.

Essay Topic 2

Samuel was ordered to work on the front lines. Discuss the reactions of the Rudomin family to the news that Samuel had to work on the front lines.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the birthday celebrations that Esther had in Vilna to the one she celebrated in Siberia.

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