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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. For what does the train stop?
(a) To take a count of the prisoners.
(b) To kill the ill.
(c) To bury the dead.
(d) To give the prisoners food and water.

2. What does Lina's mother do with the family photos?
(a) Puts them in the hat bands.
(b) Mail them to relatives in Poland.
(c) Mail them to relatives in the United States.
(d) Burns them.

3. What is Lina thinking about at the opening of the novel?
(a) Her fifteenth birthday.
(b) The time leading up to being taken prisoner.
(c) The way her father overprotected her.
(d) The time her brother drowned.

4. Who is Miss Grybas?
(a) Lina's aunt.
(b) Lina's best friend's sister.
(c) A teacher.
(d) One of the soldier's girlfriends.

5. What does Andrius do and Lina and Jonas go along?
(a) To ask where they are going.
(b) To search for his father.
(c) To try to escape.
(d) To find some food.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Lina distract the soldier watching Elena?

2. What happens one day when the train comes to a stop?

3. Who directs the packing?

4. What month do the soldiers come to Lina's home?

5. About what does Miss Grybas explain as the train continues south?

(see the answer key)

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