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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Silvana constantly reminded about in her youth?
(a) Her death father.
(b) Her dead aunt.
(c) Her dead twin sister.
(d) Her dead brothers.

2. Where does Janusz meet Silvana and Aurek?
(a) The Queen Dock.
(b) Victoria Station.
(c) Elizabeth's Square.
(d) The Royal Terminal.

3. Where are Silvana and Aurek after the war?
(a) A refugee camp.
(b) An abandoned home.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A prison.

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

5. Who shoots Franek's brother?
(a) Polish guards.
(b) German Guards
(c) Russian guards.
(d) Prioson guards

6. What does Silvana have nightmares about?
(a) The war.
(b) The woods.
(c) Janusz.
(d) Protecting Aurek.

7. What does Silvana find that belongs to Janusz?
(a) A letter Janusz wrote to his son.
(b) The letter Janusz wrote her, but never sent.
(c) The letters from Helene.
(d) A photo of him and Helene.

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

9. What makes Silvana happy?
(a) Seeing Aurek happy.
(b) Being with Janusz.
(c) Being in England.
(d) Seeing Janusz bond with Aurek.

10. Who does Silvana walk with on her way from the farm?
(a) An elderly couple.
(b) By herself.
(c) A man named Gregor.
(d) A woman named Yuska.

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

12. What do Aurek and the boy who discover him do?
(a) They go to the infirmery.
(b) Peter brings Aurek to the principal office.
(c) They skip school.
(d) They go in class together.

13. What does Janusz compare what he wants his family to be to?
(a) His job.
(b) His car.
(c) His painting.
(d) His English garden.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Silvana wonder as she and Janusz move into their own flat in "Poland"?

2. How long does Janusz stay in the farm before two soldiers arrive?

3. What does the neighbor agree to do?

4. What does Janusz fail to notice during a visit by tony and Peter?

5. What is Silvana trying to focus on to push the nightmare aside?

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