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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. In Alicia's town, how were the Russian soldiers?
(a) Plesant enough.
(b) Very cruel.
(c) Not extremely accomodating.
(d) They wanted to be liked by all of the Poles.

2. During this time, how did Alicia and her mother find food to eat?
(a) There was food provided for the workers by their employers.
(b) All of the beekeeper's houseguests would contribute food.
(c) They were given food by a boy from a rich family.
(d) They gathered small rodents on the farms.

3. What village is Alicia able to find work in during the winter?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Wujciechovka.
(c) Kielce.
(d) Słupsk.

4. What keeps Alicia's mother from going to the market to sell?
(a) Malaria.
(b) Pnemonia.
(c) The flu.
(d) A bout of dysentry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many brothers did Alicia have?

2. So far, how many brothers have been lost?

3. What story does Alicia enjoy telling?

4. How would Alicia gather heat for her family?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does meeting Bella's family help Alicia make it through through this section of the novel?

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

3. In Chapter 5, what event crushes the family?

4. How does living in the ghetto cause many of the Jewish people to act towards one another.

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

6. Why did Alicia's employer cease to allow Alicia and her mother to work and stay under her roof?

7. How does Alicia finally find her way back to her hometown and what does she find when she arrives?

8. How is Zachary's death a way to warn Jews against mounting a resistance?

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

10. Where do Alicia and her siblings go everyday to try to make money?

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