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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Janusz say that both he and Silvana know is not true?
(a) People never stop loving.
(b) People can change.
(c) People stay the same.
(d) People can adapt.

2. What is Silvana afraid of while giving birth?
(a) To have her mother's bad luck and that the child will die.
(b) That it will be painful.
(c) That the baby will be a girl.
(d) That war will break her family.

3. Where does Janusz live with Helene in Pages 83-119?
(a) Cassis.
(b) Avignon.
(c) Marseille.
(d) Nice.

4. Why is Janusz' hope no longer an option?
(a) Brazil is too hot.
(b) France is destroyer.
(c) Poland is communist.
(d) America is too strong.

5. What is Janusz happy about?
(a) That Silvana wants another child.
(b) That Aurek can sleep without nightmares.
(c) That Aurek is adjusting.
(d) That Silvana has a job.

6. What is Silvana enjoying in Pages 57-82?
(a) Freedom.
(b) The life of an urban wife.
(c) The sun.
(d) English food.

7. Who tricks the Polish according to the two soldiers?
(a) The French.
(b) The Russians.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Polish.

8. What does Janusz decide while Franek is outside?
(a) To leave for Warsaw.
(b) To leave for France.
(c) To leave for England.
(d) To leave for Spain.

9. What is stronger than Janusz's guilt over leaving his family?
(a) His wish to get far from the war.
(b) His sense of adventure.
(c) His will to live.
(d) His wish for a new life.

10. What does Janusz notice happened recently?
(a) Tony comes often when he is not at home.
(b) Silvana and Aurek are not as close.
(c) Silvana grows distant from him.
(d) Silvana is not happy.

11. What does Ambrose bring Janusz and his travel companions to do?
(a) Herding cows.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Shoping in town.
(d) Getting mushroom.

12. How long have Silvana and Aurek not seen Janusz?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 5 years.

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

14. What does Silvana find the morning after being asked to leave the farm?
(a) That the farmer was dead.
(b) That Hanka left.
(c) That Russia invaded Poland.
(d) That the Germans found her.

15. What does Silvana wonder as she and Janusz move into their own flat in "Poland"?
(a) If Janusz married her because he needed a maid.
(b) If Janusz will love their son as much as her.
(c) If Janusz married her because of her money.
(d) If Janusz married her out of duty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Silvana find that belongs to Janusz?

2. How does Franek die?

3. What does Aurek consider his father to be at the start of Pages 120-149?

4. What does Aurek struggle with?

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

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