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

2. What does Lina's father tell her to continue doing?
(a) Praying.
(b) Being so grown up.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Writing.

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

4. Who takes care of doing what has to be done concerning Ona's baby?
(a) Miss Grybas.
(b) Elena.
(c) The bald man.
(d) Lina.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lina thinking about at the opening of the novel?

2. What is Jonas afraid of at one point?

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

4. For what does the train stop?

5. What does a grouchy woman in the group that Elena's family is in say?

(see the answer key)

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