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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have some of the Jewish men created in Poland?
(a) Resistance forces.
(b) Their own army.
(c) Their own town for the Jews to hide in.
(d) A way to get to Israel without getting caught.

2. What does Manka reveal to Alicia?
(a) All in the village knew that Alicia and her mother were Jewish.
(b) That she is going to turn Alicia in for being Jewish.
(c) That other villagers are mad she is working in their village.
(d) A Ukrainian boy likes her very much.

3. Why did Bella's friend help Alicia with this task?
(a) He enjoys working with children.
(b) She wants everyone to have a Jewish burial.
(c) She wanted to give her mother a proper Jewish burial.
(d) He is attracted to Alicia.

4. How does Alicia get the young Ukrainians to leave her hide out?
(a) She promises to work for them for free.
(b) She swears that there are no Jews living in her house.
(c) She threatens to kill them all.
(d) She threatens to curse them.

5. While going to Ukrainian villages, who does Alicia find and what does he tell her about?
(a) A Jewish salesman that hired her brother for a summer.
(b) A Jewish tailor who tells her of the massacre of Jewish men.
(c) A Jewish banker that knew her father.
(d) One of her childhood friends has news of her youngest brother.

6. What happens to many of the Jews who return?
(a) Many Jews do not return.
(b) They return to ruined businesses.
(c) They are murdered by Poles for trying to take their property back.
(d) They are given their property and businesses back.

7. Why did Alicia decide to go visit Benjamin?
(a) Benjamin lost his leg and needs his spirits lifted.
(b) She wants to help him with his work for Jewish orphans.
(c) She hears of the young boy's angst over the loss of his fiance.
(d) He lost his family, so he is very sad.

8. How does Alicia get them out of trouble with the border police?
(a) She decides to forge papers to get them through the border.
(b) She gives away all of her money and earnings.
(c) She lets them take some of her transports to prison.
(d) She agrees to go to prison in their place.

9. What was Alicia's only joy that winter?
(a) Spending time with the beekeeper.
(b) Having dinner and spending time with Manka.
(c) Taking dance lessons with Manka.
(d) Her mother's thriving health.

10. Why does Alicia leave the Brecha sad?
(a) Because she has lost all of her money saved for education.
(b) She does not want to leave her job.
(c) She will miss all the people she worked with.
(d) She is leaving her new love interest behind.

11. Several days later, where does Alicia decide to visit?
(a) Her uncle's farm.
(b) Alicia's mother's grave.
(c) Her father's factory.
(d) Milek's grave at the Jewish semetary.

12. What event results in Alicia's mother's death?
(a) Her mother commits suicide.
(b) Her mother is unable to get to into a bunker hiding place and is killed.
(c) The Germans broke through Russian lines and retake Buczacz.
(d) Alicia wants to leave and go to Israel.

13. Who does she meet in the marketplace?
(a) Mrs. Traub.
(b) Mrs. Tabb.
(c) Mr. Traub.
(d) Mr. Tabb.

14. How did Benjamin's best friend die?
(a) Killed in a concentration camp.
(b) His friend is killed by the land mine.
(c) He is killed by a Nazi bullet.
(d) Killed in a Russian prison.

15. How long are they kept in prison?
(a) 1 month.
(b) 8 months.
(c) 3 months.
(d) An entire year.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Benjamin when he and Alicia begin to visit one another?

2. Why does Alicia decide to return to her father's factory?

3. Why doesn't Alicia take the opportunity to go to America that she is offered?

4. What is Alicia struck by while she recovers?

5. Who does Alicia "adopt" and spend a large amount of time with?

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