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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 24-Epilogue: School in Belgium; Coming Home; Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Alicia go to work for this person?
(a) She is promised passage to Israel.
(b) She is a great house worker.
(c) She connects well with Mrs. Traub's son.
(d) She thinks she will be appreciated by this person.

2. Why doesn't Alicia take the opportunity to go to America that she is offered?
(a) She wants to stay in the Ukraine.
(b) It does not feel like the right time to go to America.
(c) She decides she might need to go somewhere else first.
(d) She wants to go on her own accord.

3. Why does Alicia give up her radishes?
(a) She becomes sick.
(b) She trades them for more clothes.
(c) She decides to give it to starving children.
(d) She knows her mother needs to eat more of the radishes than her.

4. During this time, how did Alicia and her mother find food to eat?
(a) All of the beekeeper's houseguests would contribute food.
(b) They were given food by a boy from a rich family.
(c) There was food provided for the workers by their employers.
(d) They gathered small rodents on the farms.

5. What keeps Alicia's mother from going to the market to sell?
(a) Malaria.
(b) The flu.
(c) Pnemonia.
(d) A bout of dysentry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jewish boys enjoy doing?

2. Who does Alicia visit, asking about God and fate?

3. While visiting friends, what happens to Alicia?

4. Over time, what happens because of the occupation?

5. How were these people disguised?

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