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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8-11: My Brother Zachary; Bella; In Chortkov Prison; Milek.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the stories Alicia tells in Chapter 8 reinforce?
(a) The Nazi's cruelty.
(b) Suffering of the ghetto Jews.
(c) The tense relations between Ukrainians and Jews.
(d) Suffering of the Poles.

2. Why wasn't Alicia's section of Poland invaded sooner?
(a) The Russians had control of some of Poland.
(b) The Brits were protecting it.
(c) The Poles had an agreement with the Russians to protect them.
(d) Poland has a very strong army.

3. What is the name of the town in which Alicia grows up?
(a) Moscow, Russian.
(b) Ukraine.
(c) Berlin, Germany.
(d) Buczacz, Poland.

4. Who murders all of Alicia's family that lived in the mountains?
(a) Russians.
(b) Ukrainians.
(c) Poles.
(d) Nazis.

5. Why doesn't Alicia accept the invitation to go to the mountains?
(a) She cannot leave her mother and remaining brothers.
(b) She thinks her brother should go instead of her.
(c) She has bad allergies and will be miserable there.
(d) She fears that the Nazis will go there next.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Alicia and her family hide when the Nazis come to the ghetto in chapter 7?

2. What do members of the Judenrat council fear?

3. Where were boys encouraged to go by Russians?

4. After the most recent raid in the Jewish ghetto, how many Jews died?

5. Why did the family go without food for periods of time?

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