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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Rimas?
(a) A nurse sent to check the prisoners.
(b) An adminstrator who is compiling a list of the prisoners.
(c) A librarian.
(d) A doctor.

2. 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.

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

4. What does Lina remember as her mother is donning her coat?
(a) The items sewn into the lining.
(b) Her best friend's book.
(c) Her cat.
(d) Her favorite doll.

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

6. When does Elena think the Soviets will be stopped?
(a) When WWII is over.
(b) When the rest of the world learns what they are doing.
(c) When all of Lithuania stands up united.
(d) When Stalin is dead.

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

8. How often does the train stop?
(a) Once every other day.
(b) Never.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Once a week.

9. 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 throw up.
(d) She pretends to faint.

10. What does Lina know her father and Miss Grybas are on?
(a) A list.
(b) A lorry.
(c) She knows nothing about them being on something.
(d) A secret committee.

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

12. What does Lina's father give Lina?
(a) Ham and warm clothes.
(b) Dried beef and chocolate.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Dried fruit and several books.

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

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

15. What does Elana say they have to decide?
(a) How to survive the winter.
(b) How to get word out to Elena's husband.
(c) How to escape.
(d) Whether they will work or not.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do they wait for hours at their next stop?

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

3. What does Lina realize her father meant when he told her to keep drawing?

4. To what summer program did Lina once apply for entrance?

5. What does Elena learn from someone about food?

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