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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What made Piri ill?
(a) Leaving Komjaty.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Missing Farenc.
(d) Lack of food.

2. How did Piri hear from her parents?
(a) Her father showed up in Komjaty.
(b) Her grandmother got a telegram from her mother.
(c) A messenger brought a letter.
(d) Her grandfather got a messenger by passenger pigeon.

3. What was Piri's father's position?
(a) Printer.
(b) Mechanic.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Army officer.

4. What had Mother failed to do when she came home at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Make money.
(b) Secure passage to the country for the children.
(c) Secure visas for America.
(d) Get the police to condemn the Anti-Semites' attack.

5. What did Piri know about the political situation in 1939?
(a) She read histories and talked to people who had traveled, to see what they could tell her.
(b) She followed the papers, and tried to understand everything she could.
(c) She was too young to know anything about the political situation.
(d) She read a story about Jews being rounded up, but didn't understand the big picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Molcha?

2. What did Piri anticipate when this visitor came to the farm?

3. What did Rozsi say in her letters home?

4. What did Piri overhear when she was in bed after the incident?

5. How did Piri's family celebrate Hanukkah?

(see the answer key)

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