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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15-17: The Bitter Winter of 1943; My Mother; Struggle to Survive.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does this person confirm for her?
(a) Her brother's death.
(b) Her father's death.
(c) That she will need to go back to Buczacz.
(d) That the war is over.

2. What do members of the Judenrat council fear?
(a) They do not wish to become violent people.
(b)
(c) That if they build a resistance, the Nazis will kill more Jews.
(d) They will have to defend those who are caught resisting.

3. What event results in Alicia's mother's death?
(a) The Germans broke through Russian lines and retake Buczacz.
(b) Her mother commits suicide.
(c) Alicia wants to leave and go to Israel.
(d) Her mother is unable to get to into a bunker hiding place and is killed.

4. Where did Alicia and her family hide when the Nazis come to the ghetto in chapter 7?
(a) In a makeshift shelter beyond the back wall of the ghetto.
(b) In a bunker.
(c) In a ravine in the woods.
(d) Underground.

5. What happens to the Jews that go to a synagogue?
(a) They are executed.
(b) They are allowed to pray.
(c) They are sent to prison.
(d) They are punished by

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Moshe returns from school in Moscow?

2. At first how did life change under Russian occupation?

3. What does Manka reveal to Alicia?

4. What keeps Alicia's mother from going to the market to sell?

5. When Moshe comes home, how does he appear?

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