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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 150-183.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Janusz shocked about?
(a) That Aurek is still nursing.
(b) That Silvana talks in her sleep.
(c) That Aurek sleeps very little at night.
(d) That Silvana is sleeping with a knife.

2. How does Silvana get the German soldier who arrives seeking her apartment to leave?
(a) She gives herself to him.
(b) She pays him.
(c) She chases him with a broom.
(d) She tells him to leave.

3. What is Janusz upset with as he and Aurek return home?
(a) Aurek playing war games.
(b) Aurek ignoring other boys asking to play.
(c) Aurek trying to eat a bird.
(d) Aurek playing Tarzan.

4. What does Silvana think she needs to keep her son safe?
(a) Tony.
(b) His real father.
(c) Herself alone.
(d) Janusz.

5. Why is Janusz not home when Silvana's water breaks?
(a) He is in the army.
(b) He is at work.
(c) He is in prison.
(d) He is going to the store.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Janusz sent to recover?

2. Who is Silvana living with a year after leaving Warsaw?

3. What makes Silvana panic in Tony's store?

4. What does Janusz try to accept as he boards the train?

5. What is Silvana constantly reminded about in her youth?

(see the answer key)

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