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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Franek trying to do as Janusz and Druno eat?
(a) He is sleeping.
(b) He is playing with the pigs.
(c) He is trying to catch a cat.
(d) He tries to kill a chicken.

2. Who discovers Aurek's hiding place?
(a) Tony.
(b) Peter.
(c) Charles.
(d) Mark.

3. What does Janusz miss?
(a) His parents.
(b) The company of a woman.
(c) Polish food.
(d) Speaking Polish.

4. Where does Silvana and Aurek spend most of the war hiding?
(a) In Warsaw.
(b) In a destroyed church.
(c) In the forest.
(d) In a deserted factory.

5. What does Hanka want to do that causes Silvana feelings of dread?
(a) Go to Russia.
(b) Go back to Poland.
(c) Go to Germany.
(d) Go to England.

6. How do Hanka, Silvana and Aurek get food and shelter?
(a) With a promise to help with the farm.
(b) With cash looted from dead people.
(c) With a gun.
(d) With Silvana's ring and Hanka's willingness to give herself to the farmer.

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

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

9. What does the neighbor agree to do?
(a) Take their photograph.
(b) Loan them some silverware.
(c) Give them some sugar.
(d) Bring them to the local grocery store in their car.

10. What is Aurek not ready for?
(a) To be a civilized person.
(b) To be a boy.
(c) To be the son Janusz wants.
(d) To be a friend to Peter.

11. Where does Aurek hide after running away from school?
(a) In the forest.
(b) In an abandoned house.
(c) In the backyard.
(d) Under his bed.

12. How old is Silvana when she moves in with Janusz?
(a) 19.
(b) 21.
(c) 18.
(d) 22.

13. What does Aurek consider his father to be at the start of Pages 120-149?
(a) His uncle.
(b) The enemy.
(c) His competitor.
(d) His friend.

14. Why are Aurek and his new friend forgiven for their behavior?
(a) They both find friends.
(b) Their parents do not think skipping school is a big deal.
(c) They are both war survivors.
(d) Their parents do not know.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Silvana find that belongs to Janusz?

2. What does Janusz notice happened recently?

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

4. How does Franek die?

5. Why does Janusz leave Aurek and Silvana in Poland?

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