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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 47 through 62.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who takes care of doing what has to be done concerning Ona's baby?
(a) The bald man.
(b) Lina.
(c) Miss Grybas.
(d) Elena.

2. What made Lina angry about her conversation with her father?
(a) That the best methods of food production were ignored.
(b) That peasants are considered expendable.
(c) The way Stalin took the land away from individuals.
(d) That the people in this area of Russia are considered inferior.

3. Where is Elena ordered to go?
(a) To another hut to nurse an ill man.
(b) Inside an office.
(c) To a woman's collective nearby.
(d) Nowhere.

4. What does a Siberian woman offer?
(a) A jar of peaches.
(b) The makings of some tea to help Jonas.
(c) A fruit that only grows in that area.
(d) A dose of vitamins.

5. For what does Elena pay a woman in the hut?
(a) For a potato and to use the stove.
(b) For some coffee.
(c) For information.
(d) For bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does everyone bring to the Christmas Eve celebration?

2. For what does the train stop?

3. How much time has passed as Jonas is improving?

4. What does Lina remember about why a teacher singled her out?

5. What interrupts the people's celebration?

(see the answer key)

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