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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. When the Ukrainian gangs became bored with exterminating the Jews, who did they turn their rage to?
(a) The Poles.
(b) The sick.
(c) The poorest Jews.
(d) The Russians.

2. To provide for herself and her mother, what must Alicia do?
(a) Become a peasant.
(b) Pretend that she is royalty.
(c) She and her mother con people into giving them money.
(d) She steals from farms.

3. When Alicia is finally healthy enough to get home, what does she find?
(a) One of her friends, Milek, has run away.
(b) She finds that Herzl has died.
(c) She finds her mother and Herzl sick with typhoid.
(d) Her village has been burned to the ground.

4. What is the family's new winter hiding place called?
(a) A ravine.
(b) A shack.
(c) A shelter.
(d) A bunker.

5. Because of what happens to his sister, what does Zach wish to do?
(a) Start some kind of resistance in their home town.
(b) Get the Jewish leaders involved.
(c) Kill the Nazis.
(d) Revenge his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What story does Alicia enjoy telling?

2. Why doesn't Alicia accept the invitation to go to the mountains?

3. What becomes Moshe's fate at this location?

4. What is the name of the town in which Alicia grows up?

5. What do the stories Alicia tells in Chapter 8 reinforce?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was Alicia's first run-in with Antisemitism?

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

8. What is the second way that Alicia proves she is selfless in this section?

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

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

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