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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. How is Alicia able to obtain food and shelter?
(a) She must sell herself to make money.
(b) She works as a peasant in many feilds.
(c) She pretends she is an upperclass Ukrainian girl.
(d) She must steal food and hide in abandonned homes.

2. What important event happens at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Almost all Jews are sent to camps.
(b) All the Jews were moved in a ghetto.
(c) The Jews flee Poland.
(d) The Jews are forced to hide in bunkers everyday.

3. What rumors began to circulate around Poland in March?
(a) The Germans are being beaten by the Americans.
(b) Soon the Germans will just let Jews go to Israel.
(c) That the Germans are being defeated by the Russians.
(d) The Germans are winning the war.

4. At the end of Chapter 13, how are Alicia and her mother able to gain shelter from?
(a) A banker.
(b) A beekeeper.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A milk farmer.

5. What must the family now do to survive?
(a) Alicia's mother works as a servant in a Polish home.
(b) Move from shelter to shelter.
(c) Haggle and sell whatever they can find.
(d) Send all the children to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the Poles having sympathy for the Jews?

2. Why is Alicia caught by the Gestapo?

3. How did Alicia's mother try to save her father?

4. While looking for her family, what does she find?

5. What language were children now forced to speak?

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