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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. How is Bunio killed?
(a) He is sent to a work camp and worked to death.
(b) He is forced to endure a starvation diet.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is hung in front of the town.

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

3. Where had Alicia's new friend, Bella, come from?
(a) Russia.
(b) The city.
(c) The countryside.
(d) Austria.

4. What is the family's new winter hiding place called?
(a) A bunker.
(b) A shelter.
(c) A shack.
(d) A ravine.

5. At the end of the section, what has happened to the Jurman family?
(a) They have lost all their money.
(b) They have escaped Poland.
(c) They are all forced to go to camps.
(d) They send all of their males to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What becomes Moshe's fate at this location?

2. What is the name of the town in which Alicia grows up?

3. What do Zachary and Alicia begin trying to sell in this section?

4. Why does Alicia give up her radishes?

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

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