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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lina explain to the gray-haired man?
(a) That the song is in protest.
(b) That the symbols will give the next group hope.
(c) That the ring will buy them food so she wants to keep it clean.
(d) That the drawings will be a way to communicate with her father.

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

3. What drawing that Lina did once infuriated Lina's father?
(a) Stalin in a clown suit.
(b) Elena's family huddled in fear.
(c) Stalin in a Santa Claus suit.
(d) Stalin hanging from a noose.

4. About how big is the hut in which Lina the others live?
(a) 12 by 18.
(b) 10 by 12.
(c) 20 by 15.
(d) 10 by 20.

5. Where is the farming area where the trucks arrive?
(a) Near Minsk.
(b) Near Lubovitch.
(c) Near Luanas.
(d) Near Altai.

6. For what does the train stop?
(a) To bury the dead.
(b) To take a count of the prisoners.
(c) To give the prisoners food and water.
(d) To kill the ill.

7. Who directs the packing?
(a) Lina.
(b) Jona.
(c) Elena.
(d) Each person packs for him/herself.

8. How long does the officer give the family to pack?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) One hour.
(c) 2 days.
(d) No time.

9. What does the gray-haired man notice Lina doing?
(a) Drawing patriotic symbols on the wall.
(b) Composing a song.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Polishing a ring.

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

11. 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 are turned over to the Germans.
(d) The people find themselves in open countryside.

12. What are they told when the truck stops?
(a) They need to start digging.
(b) They can shower.
(c) They are free to go.
(d) They must wait here for several more days.

13. What happens to Ona's baby?
(a) The baby dies.
(b) The baby becomes listless.
(c) The baby starts doing better.
(d) The baby has croup.

14. For what does Elena pay a woman in the hut?
(a) For bread.
(b) For information.
(c) For a potato and to use the stove.
(d) For some coffee.

15. What does Lina realize the priest is doing?
(a) Betraying his countrymen.
(b) Comforted the doomed prisoners.
(c) Offering last rites to those on the train.
(d) Bribing the soldiers to treat the prisoners better.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in the hut where Lina's family is assigned?

2. How does the bald man feel about the news about Germany?

3. What do the women do to relieve stress?

4. What does Ona finally agree to do?

5. Who is Miss Grybas?

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