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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. Why do they wait for hours at their next stop?
(a) For the men's truck to arrive.
(b) For a woman to give birth.
(c) For the train to arrive.
(d) For some papers to arrive.

2. What did Lina once say about Stalin?
(a) He should be hanged.
(b) He saved Russia from starvation.
(c) He should be run out of Lithuania.
(d) He was a hero.

3. How does Lina distract the soldier watching Elena?
(a) She starts crying.
(b) She pretends to throw up.
(c) She complains about having to use the bathroom.
(d) She pretends to faint.

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

5. What does Lina tell her mother about people in the other cars?
(a) They look like they've given up hope.
(b) They look sick.
(c) They look like they are eating better.
(d) Nothing as she can't see the others.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what summer program did Lina once apply for entrance?

2. What does Lina realize her father meant when he told her to keep drawing?

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

4. What does Jonas do without complaint?

5. What is Jonas afraid of at one point?

(see the answer key)

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