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. When Alicia is finally healthy enough to get home, what does she find?
(a) Her village has been burned to the ground.
(b) She finds that Herzl has died.
(c) One of her friends, Milek, has run away.
(d) She finds her mother and Herzl sick with typhoid.

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

3. Why is Alicia accidentally taken to a concentration camp?
(a) The Nazis think she is a part of the resistance.
(b) Because she is mistaken for her mother.
(c) She runs after her mother and is then forced to go with her to the camp.
(d) She was rounded up with a group of young girls.

4. After being rescued by Milek, when Alicia wakes, where does she find herself?
(a) Being carried back to Buczacz.
(b) In a lake, swimming away from the Nazis.
(c) In the forest, not understanding how she arrived there.
(d) Taken to America to get away from the Nazis.

5. Because of what happens to his sister, what does Zach wish to do?
(a) Get the Jewish leaders involved.
(b) Kill the Nazis.
(c) Revenge his sister.
(d) Start some kind of resistance in their home town.