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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year does Alicia hear that the Germans might be invading Poland?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1938.

3. Where were boys encouraged to go by Russians?
(a) Stay at home with their families.
(b) To join the Russian army.
(c) To go to the Ukraine.
(d) To school in Moscow.

4. What is Alicia's first experience with antisemitism?
(a) When her father's factory was burned to the ground because he was Jewish.
(b) When her mother was accosted in the town square.
(c) When her brother Zachary is beaten by five Polish boys.
(d) When she was taunted at school by a group of Gentile students.

5. What village is Alicia able to find work in during the winter?
(a) Słupsk.
(b) Kielce.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Wujciechovka.

6. Who finds Alicia in this hiding place?
(a) Milek.
(b) Bella.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her youngest brother.

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

8. 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.

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

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

11. Where do Alicia and her family choose to live after they are moved to another ghetto?
(a) They live in a very small apartment.
(b) They decide to go undergrounf to be safe.
(c) They decide to move into a small house so they can have it to themselves.
(d) They move into the kitchen of a large home in the new ghetto.

12. So far, how many brothers have been lost?
(a) 2 brothers.
(b) None of her brothers have been killed.
(c) 1 brother.
(d) 3 brothers.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Alicia obtain food and winter clothes?

3. After the most recent raid in the Jewish ghetto, how many Jews died?

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

5. Because she cannot stay in Buczacz, what hiding place does she find?

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