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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Alicia refuse to reveal to her mother?
(a) That all her brothers have died.
(b) That her father is definitely dead.
(c) That all of her family has died.
(d) That she is sick with the flu.

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

4. At the end of Chapter 13, how are Alicia and her mother able to gain shelter from?
(a) A banker.
(b) A milk farmer.
(c) A farmer.
(d) A beekeeper.

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

6. Who murders all of Alicia's family that lived in the mountains?
(a) Ukrainians.
(b) Russians.
(c) Nazis.
(d) Poles.

7. What language were children now forced to speak?
(a) Russian.
(b) English.
(c) Ukrainian.
(d) German.

8. In Alicia's town, how were the Russian soldiers?
(a) They wanted to be liked by all of the Poles.
(b) Very cruel.
(c) Plesant enough.
(d) Not extremely accomodating.

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

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

11. While looking for her family, what does she find?
(a) Peasants working a field of wheat.
(b) Her mother working in the fields.
(c) Jewish people hiding in the fields.
(d) Corn fields.

12. Who does Alicia visit, asking about God and fate?
(a) The ghetto's oldest living resident.
(b) Her best friend's father.
(c) Her great aunt.
(d) The Jewish leader of the community.

13. What saves Alicia?
(a) Her looks; one of the officers is attracted to her.
(b) She is able to escape from the camp.
(c) Some Russians arrive to liberate him.
(d) Being buried with others and rescued.

14. During her early years, what didn't Alicia experience?
(a) Antisemitism.
(b) Having a boyfriend.
(c) Going to school.
(d) Love from her parents.

15. How is she able to escape?
(a) Jewish resistors free her by opening fire.
(b) After men pull apart the bars of the car, she crawls out the window.
(c) She overtakes some of the officers.
(d) She runs away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where were boys encouraged to go by Russians?

2. Where was Alicia placed after being caught?

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

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

5. How would Alicia gather heat for her family?

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