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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After being rescued by Milek, when Alicia wakes, where does she find herself?
(a) Taken to America to get away from the Nazis.
(b) In the forest, not understanding how she arrived there.
(c) In a lake, swimming away from the Nazis.
(d) Being carried back to Buczacz.

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

3. What is Alicia's friend Milek now involved in?
(a) The Nazis.
(b) He steals food for Jewish people who cannot get out of their homes.
(c) Engaged in resistance activities.
(d) He is working to smuggle Jewish people out of Poland.

4. At first how did life change under Russian occupation?
(a) Pictures of Lenin and Stalin were posted everywhere.
(b) Jews were not allowed to congregate.
(c) Jews had to wear the Star of David.
(d) Russians were put in positions of power.

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

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

7. Where were people who committed unnamed crimes sent?
(a) Moscow.
(b) Siberia.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Africa.

8. What must Jews now wear?
(a) Any sort of jewerly.
(b) Shoes.
(c) The Star of David.
(d) Specific clothing of a certain color.

9. At the beginning of Chapter 13, what does the author give?
(a) The author explains Alicia's background.
(b) Information on her youngest brother's whereabouts.
(c) The author gives a summary of Ukrainian and Polish relations.
(d) The author discusses how Milek got involved in the resistance movement.

10. What must the family now do to survive?
(a) Haggle and sell whatever they can find.
(b) Move from shelter to shelter.
(c) Send all the children to work.
(d) Alicia's mother works as a servant in a Polish home.

11. What saves Alicia?
(a) Her mother gives herself up for Alicia to go free.
(b) Milek carries her off away from the death march.
(c) She is able to overcome her agressors.
(d) Milek and some of the resistance rescue the people on the death march.

12. In case the Jurman family was separated, where did they agree to meet?
(a) Buczacz.
(b) Russia.
(c) In the mountains of Poland.
(d) Berlin.

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

14. How many Jewish men are forced to go to the police station?
(a) 30.
(b) 15.
(c) 80.
(d) 60.

15. Over time, what happens because of the occupation?
(a) Russians forced Polish women to mate with them.
(b) Russians took over businesses and people began to disappear.
(c) All children were forced to go away to school in Russian or Germany.
(d) Russians get violent with the Poles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Alicia's town, how were the Russian soldiers?

2. How did Alicia's mother try to save her father?

3. Why doesn't Alicia accept the invitation to go to the mountains?

4. What important event happens at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. Who has Alicia become fast friends from?

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