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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Jonas worry while waiting for Elena?
(a) That their house back in their homeland is being ransacked.
(b) That they should try to escape.
(c) That they should have gone with Elena.
(d) That they should try to get more food.

2. What are they forced to do?
(a) Gather food from a field.
(b) Burn their old clothes.
(c) Sit back to back and be tied.
(d) Undress in front of the soldiers.

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

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

5. Where does the train split off with the men?
(a) Kuanas.
(b) Vilnius.
(c) Minsk.
(d) Kiev.

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. Where does the truck go from Lina's house?
(a) To the morgue.
(b) To the hospital.
(c) To the prison.
(d) To the airport.

8. What is a kolkhoz?
(a) A collection of tools.
(b) A community of buildings.
(c) A foundry.
(d) A collective farm.

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

10. What does Lina's mother do with the family photos?
(a) Burns them.
(b) Mail them to relatives in Poland.
(c) Puts them in the hat bands.
(d) Mail them to relatives in the United States.

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

12. How does Elena manage to keep Jonas with them?
(a) Makes a plea to a female soldier as a mother.
(b) She is not successful in keeping Jonas with them.
(c) Bribes a soldier.
(d) Demands to see the papers that would send him somewhere else.

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

14. Why does Elena rush to get herself and Lina clean?
(a) She thinks the guards will limit their time in the showers.
(b) She can hardly stand her smell.
(c) She thinks the hot water will be gone quickly.
(d) She is afraid for the two of them to be naked in front of the soldiers for long.

15. What does Lina's mother do with their best jewelry?
(a) Hides it in the cellar.
(b) Sews it into the linings of the coats.
(c) Gives it to Christian neighbors for safekeeping.
(d) Buries it in the backyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Miss Grybas explain as the train continues south?

2. Why does Andrius pull Jonas away?

3. What does Lina's father tell her to continue doing?

4. Where is Elena ordered to go?

5. About how big is the hut in which Lina the others live?

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