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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why wasn't Alicia's section of Poland invaded sooner?
(a) Poland has a very strong army.
(b) The Poles had an agreement with the Russians to protect them.
(c) The Brits were protecting it.
(d) The Russians had control of some of Poland.

3. What story does Alicia enjoy telling?
(a) The three little pigs.
(b) The story of Little Red Riding Hood.
(c) The story of her family.
(d) A Jewish wise tale.

4. What winter clothes is Alicia given?
(a) Shoes and a jacket.
(b) A shawl.
(c) A jacket.
(d) A jacket, shawl, and shoes.

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

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

7. What important event happens at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) The Jews are forced to hide in bunkers everyday.
(b) Almost all Jews are sent to camps.
(c) The Jews flee Poland.
(d) All the Jews were moved in a ghetto.

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

9. How is Alicia able to obtain food and shelter?
(a) She must sell herself to make money.
(b) She must steal food and hide in abandonned homes.
(c) She works as a peasant in many feilds.
(d) She pretends she is an upperclass Ukrainian girl.

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

11. While life continues on, what has rooted itself into the town?
(a) Fear of the war in America.
(b) The consequences of their resistance.
(c) Fear of the Japanese.
(d) Fear of the Germans.

12. What does Alicia begin to call the beekeeper?
(a) Onkel.
(b) Wujciu.
(c) Dyadya.
(d) Dod.

13. What do the stories Alicia tells in Chapter 8 reinforce?
(a) Suffering of the Poles.
(b) The tense relations between Ukrainians and Jews.
(c) The Nazi's cruelty.
(d) Suffering of the ghetto Jews.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How would Alicia gather heat for her family?

2. What were the Jews proud of?

3. When was Bella's husband taken by the Russians?

4. Where were boys encouraged to go by Russians?

5. So far, how many brothers have been lost?

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