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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 saves Alicia?
(a) She is able to escape from the camp.
(b) Some Russians arrive to liberate him.
(c) Being buried with others and rescued.
(d) Her looks; one of the officers is attracted to her.

2. While visiting friends, what happens to Alicia?
(a) She is forced into a boxcar for transport.
(b) She is forced to go to a death camp.
(c) She is sent on a death march.
(d) She is forced to work the fields in her mother's place.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Alicia is finally healthy enough to get home, what does she find?

2. Where do Alicia and her family choose to live after they are moved to another ghetto?

3. When the Ukrainian gangs became bored with exterminating the Jews, who did they turn their rage to?

4. What winter clothes is Alicia given?

5. Why did the family go without food for periods of time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In a twist of fate, how does Alicia become reconnected to her mother?

4. How is Zachary's death a way to warn Jews against mounting a 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. How does Alicia show her selflessness in this section?

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

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

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

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

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