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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Alicia's friend Milek now involved in?
(a) He steals food for Jewish people who cannot get out of their homes.
(b) He is working to smuggle Jewish people out of Poland.
(c) The Nazis.
(d) Engaged in resistance activities.

2. What happens when Moshe returns from school in Moscow?
(a) He is put in prison.
(b) He is tortured.
(c) He is returned to his family.
(d) He is starved.

3. Because she cannot stay in Buczacz, what hiding place does she find?
(a) A ravine.
(b) In a shack.
(c) Under a waterfall.
(d) A bunker.

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

5. Where does Alicia end up at the end of the chapter?
(a) She has passed out in the forest.
(b) She is forced to stay in the concentration camp.
(c) She has been carried to Germany.
(d) In a Ukrainian wheat field.

Short Answer Questions

1. At first how did life change under Russian occupation?

2. Why does Alicia give up her radishes?

3. What important event happens at the beginning of Chapter 4?

4. How does Alicia disguise herself as a worker?

5. When Moshe comes home, how does he appear?

Short Essay Questions

1. As the winter comes, how do the Jews protect themselves from Nazi raids?

2. What became the fate of Moshe, Alicia's brother?

3. What happened to Hebrew when The Russians took over Poland?

4. What upsets Zachary so much that he decides to join into the resistance?

5. Where does Alicia find herself as this section begins and why does she watch peasants as she tries to find her way back to her home town?

6. Why do so many people decide to stay away from the beekeeper?

7. What action of some of the Nazi soldiers shows how cruel and heartless many of them were?

8. How did life change once the Russians took over control of Poland?

9. How does Alicia show her selflessness in this section?

10. How does Mrs Gold choose to help Alicia after she has already nursed her back to health?

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