View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people does Lina count in the train car?
(a) 15.
(b) 46.
(c) 21.
(d) 75.

2. 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.

3. What does the bald man ask Jonas to do?
(a) Read to him.
(b) Shoot him.
(c) Tell him a story.
(d) Smother him.

4. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?
(a) Help her escape.
(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 care for her baby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ona finally agree to do?

2. What does Lina explain to the gray-haired man?

3. What happens to Ona's baby?

4. What drawing that Lina did once infuriated Lina's father?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 295 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample