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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7: My First Escape; My Brother Bunio, Guralis and Radishes, The First.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why do the Germans soon arrive in Alicia's town?
(a) The agreement with the Russians has ended.
(b) They want to assist the Ukrainians in getting back at the Poles.
(c) They are breaking the treaty with the Russians.
(d) They want to take over Poland.

3. Where aren't Jews allowed?
(a) At public gatherings.
(b) In gardens.
(c) In churches.
(d) In certain streets and nieghborhoods.

4. What becomes Moshe's fate at this location?
(a) He dies in prison of food poisoning.
(b) He is forced to go to a work camp.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is returned to his family.

5. What is Alicia's first experience with antisemitism?
(a) When she was taunted at school by a group of Gentile students.
(b) When her mother was accosted in the town square.
(c) When her father's factory was burned to the ground because he was Jewish.
(d) When her brother Zachary is beaten by five Polish boys.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Why wasn't Alicia's section of Poland invaded sooner?

5. In what year does Alicia hear that the Germans might be invading Poland?

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