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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elena tell Mrs. Rimas?
(a) She hopes to send a letter out of the nearby post office.
(b) She hopes her husband will be released soon.
(c) She hopes her mother will find a way to bring them to France.
(d) She is going to start growing her own food.

2. What does Lina recall about doing once with her mother?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Sewing.

3. What made Lina angry about her conversation with her father?
(a) That the best methods of food production were ignored.
(b) That the people in this area of Russia are considered inferior.
(c) The way Stalin took the land away from individuals.
(d) That peasants are considered expendable.

4. Why does Elena pull Lina away from a guard?
(a) He is touching her.
(b) He is hitting her.
(c) He is trying to make her go into the woods.
(d) He is trying to put her on the truck.

5. To what summer program did Lina once apply for entrance?
(a) Music school in Kuanas.
(b) Art program in Minsk.
(c) Art program in Vilnius.
(d) Sports program.

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

7. What does Lina realize when her mother tells her to button her coat?
(a) That their father has already been taken.
(b) That her cat ran out the front door.
(c) That Lina is still in her nightgown.
(d) That Jonas is missing.

8. Who is Ona?
(a) The woman who just gave birth.
(b) The train's conductor.
(c) The matron who is searching the female prisoners.
(d) One of the soldiers.

9. What are the men in one car doing?
(a) Singing the Lithuanian national anthem.
(b) Fighting the soldiers.
(c) Crying.
(d) Rioting.

10. What does Ona do when they are loaded back on the trucks?
(a) She sobs.
(b) She whimpers.
(c) She starts chanting loudly.
(d) She refuses to speak.

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

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

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

14. What is grown on this farm?
(a) Beets and potatoes.
(b) Potatoes and corn.
(c) Soybeans and beets.
(d) Wheat and corn.

15. What is obvious about Andrius when he gets back to their railroad car?
(a) He has been brutally beaten.
(b) He is dispirited.
(c) He has talked to his father.
(d) He has some sort of plan.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are they forced to do?

2. What does Lina recall drawing?

3. About what does Jonas worry while waiting for Elena?

4. For what does the train stop?

5. Where does the train split off with the men?

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