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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25 through 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Elena ordered to go?
(a) To a woman's collective nearby.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Inside an office.
(d) To another hut to nurse an ill man.

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

3. What happens one day when the train comes to a stop?
(a) The people are set free.
(b) The people are massacred.
(c) The people find themselves in open countryside.
(d) The people are turned over to the Germans.

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

5. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?
(a) Help her escape.
(b) Not give her baby to the soldiers.
(c) Help her care for her baby.
(d) Keep her baby while she tries to find some food for the child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lina recall drawing?

2. What does Jonas do without complaint?

3. How does Elena manage to keep Jonas with them?

4. What are they forced to do?

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

(see the answer key)

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