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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Andrius Arnydas say about his father?
(a) His father knows Stalin and will come to get him.
(b) His father is on his way to Moscow to appeal the sentence.
(c) His father was just killed by soldiers last week.
(d) His father is in the Lithuanian Army.

2. What are the daily rations like?
(a) Dirty water and gruel.
(b) Fairly clean water and dried beef.
(c) They get no rations.
(d) They only are given rations once a week.

3. What does Lina realize her father meant when he told her to keep drawing?
(a) That she can communicate with him through her art.
(b) She thinks he is just trying to comfort her.
(c) That she might be able to earn some money drawing.
(d) That she should draw pictures of all the guards so they can be identified later.

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

5. What does a grouchy woman in the group that Elena's family is in say?
(a) That maybe they are free to go.
(b) That they have been liberated by the Germans.
(c) That Elena should not put on airs.
(d) That Elena and the others had made them seem weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the bald man say is worse than Stalin?

2. How many people does Lina count in the train car?

3. What does Elena give the bald man?

4. What does Lina know her father and Miss Grybas are on?

5. What are the men in one car doing?

(see the answer key)

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