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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 "Sons," what did Papa and his sons study?
(a) Isaiah.
(b) Job.
(c) Psalms.
(d) Habbakuk.

2. In "Words," what color dress do the Russian girls wear?
(a) Black.
(b) Navy.
(c) Brown.
(d) Gray.

3. In "Gone," when did Clara and her family plan to board a steamship to travel to the U.S.?
(a) Winter.
(b) Summer.
(c) Spring.
(d) Autumn.

4. How many people were in steerage on the journey to America?
(a) 780.
(b) 940.
(c) 1,300.
(d) 1,000.

5. In "A Favor," how many people were murdered?
(a) 38.
(b) 49.
(c) 47.
(d) 51.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Clara's brothers do to pass the time in "Look Away"?

2. In "Listen," where would Clara escape?

3. In "Preparation," what day of the week do women fill Mama's grocery store as they come to buy?

4. In "Look Away," how many bodies were crowded on the train?

5. How often does Clara walk with her mother to the center of town to buy goods for the store?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Clara and her family live?

2. How did Clara describe her fifth day at sea?

3. Why do Clara and her brothers have to hide in the woods?

4. What does Clara remember doing on Friday afternoons?

5. In "Sons," what did Clara wonder about her father?

6. What was the apartment like that the Lemlich family rented in America?

7. How did Clara learn to read and write Yiddish?

8. Who had to stay behind in quarantine and why when the Lemlichs arrived in New York?

9. What happens during the pogrom?

10. What language is Clara nearly fluent in and how did she learn that language?

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