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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 was Bella's husband taken by the Russians?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1931.

2. What saves Alicia?
(a) Milek carries her off away from the death march.
(b) Milek and some of the resistance rescue the people on the death march.
(c) Her mother gives herself up for Alicia to go free.
(d) She is able to overcome her agressors.

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

4. 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 her mother and Herzl sick with typhoid.
(c) Her village has been burned to the ground.
(d) She finds that Herzl has died.

5. Where did Alicia and her family hide when the Nazis come to the ghetto in chapter 7?
(a) In a makeshift shelter beyond the back wall of the ghetto.
(b) In a bunker.
(c) Underground.
(d) In a ravine in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where aren't Jews allowed?

2. After the Nazis leave Alicia's village in Chapter 7, what has happened in the ghetto?

3. What is the name of the new ghetto?

4. Who does Alicia visit, asking about God and fate?

5. What does this name mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who help to nurse Alicia back to health after she escapes being sent on a death march?

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

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

10. How does Alicia try to help herself, her mother, and others?

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