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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 what year does Alicia hear that the Germans might be invading Poland?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1935.

2. How is Alicia able to obtain food and shelter?
(a) She pretends she is an upperclass Ukrainian girl.
(b) She must sell herself to make money.
(c) She must steal food and hide in abandonned homes.
(d) She works as a peasant in many feilds.

3. What do the stories Alicia tells in Chapter 8 reinforce?
(a) The tense relations between Ukrainians and Jews.
(b) Suffering of the ghetto Jews.
(c) Suffering of the Poles.
(d) The Nazi's cruelty.

4. What did Alicia's family have time to do?
(a) Make food to bring with them.
(b) Get all of the boys together and send them away.
(c) Move their posessions into a room of a friend's home.
(d) Escape from the ghetto.

5. What does Alicia often attempt to sell to make money?
(a) Milk.
(b) Soap.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Butter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must Jews now wear?

2. Over time, what happens because of the occupation?

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

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

5. What happens to the Jews that go to a synagogue?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Bella escape from the farmers that kidnapped her family?

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

5. Why are Alicia and her family more prepared for the move to the ghetto?

6. How does Alicia find her way home after being caught in the transport car?

7. As a child where does Alicia grow up with her family and was it a nice place for Jewish people to live?

8. What causes Alicia to be picked up in a transport car?

9. When the Germans arrived in Poland, what has happened to the Russians and Poles?

10. 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?

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