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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Bella's father's occupation?
(a) Banker.
(b) Jeweler.
(c) Furrier.
(d) Financier.

3. Why is Alicia accidentally taken to a concentration camp?
(a) Because she is mistaken for her mother.
(b) The Nazis think she is a part of the resistance.
(c) She was rounded up with a group of young girls.
(d) She runs after her mother and is then forced to go with her to the camp.

4. What did Jewish boys enjoy doing?
(a) Spending time with their fathers.
(b) Studying to become Rabbis.
(c) Dating girls.
(d) Singing and playing instruments.

5. What becomes Moshe's fate at this location?
(a) He is returned to his family.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is forced to go to a work camp.
(d) He dies in prison of food poisoning.

6. Why does Alicia give up her radishes?
(a) She trades them for more clothes.
(b) She knows her mother needs to eat more of the radishes than her.
(c) She becomes sick.
(d) She decides to give it to starving children.

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

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

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

14. How does Alicia disguise herself as a worker?
(a) She wears peasant clothing.
(b) She is the best worker she can be.
(c) She is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.
(d) She takes on peasant mannerisms.

15. What is the name of Alicia's younger brother?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Joseph.
(c) Myron.
(d) Herzl.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Bunio killed?

2. To provide for herself and her mother, what must Alicia do?

3. While life continues on, what has rooted itself into the town?

4. While looking for her family, what does she find?

5. Where were people who committed unnamed crimes sent?

(see the answer keys)

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