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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Moshe returns from school in Moscow?
(a) He is starved.
(b) He is returned to his family.
(c) He is tortured.
(d) He is put in prison.

2. How would Alicia gather heat for her family?
(a) She would go into forbidden forest territory with Jewish boys to gather wood.
(b) She would trade her clothing for wood.
(c) Old newspapers.
(d) She would beg for wood from richer families.

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

4. When Moshe comes home, how does he appear?
(a) Crazed and angry.
(b) Relieved.
(c) Sad and starved.
(d) Happy and exicted.

5. How does Alicia obtain food and winter clothes?
(a) From a kind farmer who is getting rid of food.
(b) From the food storages in Ukraine.
(c) From Wujciu.
(d) From Slavka.

6. What do Zachary and Alicia begin trying to sell in this section?
(a) Their services has house servants.
(b) Flints of soup.
(c) Their hair.
(d) Their clothing.

7. What do members of the Judenrat council fear?
(a)
(b) That if they build a resistance, the Nazis will kill more Jews.
(c) They will have to defend those who are caught resisting.
(d) They do not wish to become violent people.

8. What were the Jews proud of?
(a) Their heritage and community.
(b) Their money.
(c) Their heritage.
(d) Their community.

9. Why is Alicia caught by the Gestapo?
(a) She is crying when they come to look for her.
(b) She runs outside to warn others that the Nazis are coming.
(c) Alicia chooses to stay out in the open with two babies and nurse them.
(d) She is not caught.

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

11. Why did the family go without food for periods of time?
(a) So the youngest child could eat.
(b) So that Alicia's mother's family could have food.
(c) So they could send food to Bunio.
(d) So they could trade it to sell.

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

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

14. What was Buczacz perfect for?
(a) Having a small community.
(b) Meeting new people.
(c) Raising a Jewish family.
(d) Starting a company.

15. Why was a villager cast out by his peers when he had an epileptic fit?
(a) Everyone is actually very supportive of him.
(b) They thought what he had was contagious.
(c) They thought he was a pervert.
(d) They thought he was posessed by demons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What winter clothes is Alicia given?

2. During this time, how did Alicia and her mother find food to eat?

3. What happens to the Jews that go to a synagogue?

4. What saves Alicia?

5. During her early years, what didn't Alicia experience?

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