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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How were these people disguised?
(a) As young children.
(b) As women.
(c) As sailors.
(d) As salesmen.

3. While on their outing, why are they arrested by two Russian officers?
(a) Because of Bronia's involvement in the black market.
(b) Because they are caught stealing from the marketplace.
(c) They were transporting people illegally.
(d) They disrespect two officers.

4. Where is Alicia sent to recuperate?
(a) The hot climate of Spain.
(b) A resort in the Swiss Alps.
(c) A resort in the Austrian Alps.
(d) A beach village in Southern France.

5. What does Alicia believe of her father?
(a) He should have fought harder to stay with her and her family.
(b) He was a strong, proud, successful Jewish man.
(c) Had he lived, her mother would have survived.
(d) He was a loving father.

6. What does Manka's father welcome Alicia to do?
(a) Take clothes.
(b) He does not welcome her.
(c) Stay at his home, but Alicia's mother cannot stay.
(d) She could come by the house to get food for her and her mother.

7. Why does Alicia decide to return to her father's factory?
(a) She wishes to collect the money that she thinks is rightly hers.
(b) She hopes to create her own factory and wants to see how her father's was run.
(c) To see if she can reclaim what is rightful hers and her family's.
(d) She wants to rememeber what life what like before the war.

8. After seeing her old friend, where do Bronia and Alicia go?
(a) To see Bronia's family.
(b) To see the destruction of the city.
(c) To see the city.
(d) To look for food.

9. Why is Alicia given thousands of rubles?
(a) The Jews of Chernovtsy are thankful that she kept their secrets of the black market.
(b) An important figure in the Ukrainian government falls in love with Alicia.
(c) She wins the lottery in Chernovtsy.
(d) She gains an admirer.

10. In May, what does Alicia have no difficulty finding?
(a) Family members that survived.
(b) Work on farms.
(c) Being a servant in the house of rich people.
(d) Other Jews that survived.

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

12. What rumors began to circulate around Poland in March?
(a) That the Germans are being defeated by the Russians.
(b) Soon the Germans will just let Jews go to Israel.
(c) The Germans are winning the war.
(d) The Germans are being beaten by the Americans.

13. What must she admit to the Ukrainians who find her hide out?
(a) She is hiding other Jews.
(b) She is not Ukrainian.
(c) She has stolen a lot of food from them.
(d) She is Jewish.

14. After the liberation of Buczacz who decides to return?
(a) Alicia, her mother, and two other Jewish families.
(b) Only Alicia wants to return.
(c) Alicia decides to stay with the beekeeper.
(d) The Jewish families that live with the beekeeper but not Alicia.

15. Why were the Poles having sympathy for the Jews?
(a) The Nazis had turned their attention to the Poles.
(b) The Ukrainians were now targeting the Jews, causing the Poles to sympathize.
(c) They actually do not have any sympathy for the Jews.
(d) They realized that they should have worked harder to help the Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does she meet in the marketplace?

2. What did Sophie want Alicia to give up?

3. While working with the orphans and Mr. Sharf, who does Alicia meet?

4. How was Benjamin injured?

5. How many people does Alicia room with while recovering?

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