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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who else was involved in the black market?
(a) Bella.
(b) The Blieners.
(c) Alicia.
(d) Dora.

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

6. Why is Alicia completely devastated at the end of Chapter 18?
(a) Benjamin has killed herself.
(b) She learns that Milek has died.
(c) She discovers her youngest brother died.
(d) She is told she must immediately leave because Jewish Poles are still being trageted.

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

8. What does Manka's father welcome Alicia to do?
(a) He does not welcome her.
(b) Take clothes.
(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.

9. How does Alicia escape the execution site?
(a) She runs back to her hometown village.
(b) She hides in a river bank.
(c) Milek resuces her again.
(d) She runs to the river and hides in a hollow tree.

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

11. Where was the Brecha headquarter?
(a) Płock.
(b) Lodz.
(c) Lublin.
(d) Kielce.

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

13. How are they eventually released?
(a) Because the prison is liberated.
(b) A Ukrainian organization takes up their cause and gets them released.
(c) Bronia's brother collects 40,000 rubles for their release.
(d) They bribe the Ukrainian officials into releasing them.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While going to Ukrainian villages, who does Alicia find and what does he tell her about?

2. Why did Alicia decide to go visit Benjamin?

3. How did Alicia and her mother survive the winter of 1943?

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

5. Why is Alicia given thousands of rubles?

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