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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 36 through 46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?
(a) Help her care for her baby.
(b) Not give her baby to the soldiers.
(c) Keep her baby while she tries to find some food for the child.
(d) Help her escape.

2. What does Lina's mother do with their best jewelry?
(a) Sews it into the linings of the coats.
(b) Buries it in the backyard.
(c) Gives it to Christian neighbors for safekeeping.
(d) Hides it in the cellar.

3. What happens one day when Lina is sent off the train?
(a) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(b) She is accosted by a soldier.
(c) She trips and breaks her hand.
(d) She considers running away.

4. What does Elena have Lina take Mr. Stalas?
(a) Some medicine.
(b) A potato.
(c) A beet.
(d) A note.

5. What does Lina not tell her mother about Kostas?
(a) That he had been beaten.
(b) That he was going to Moscow to be tried for treason.
(c) That he knew he would not see them again.
(d) That he was gravely ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Elena pay a woman in the hut?

2. When are the prisoners taken to the military office?

3. How does the bald man feel about the news about Germany?

4. Who is Ulyushka?

5. Why does Andrius pull Jonas away?

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