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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Lina's father say when she signs the drawing?
(a) That she should not sign drawings any more because it is too dangerous.
(b) That no one would recognize the name.
(c) That she should not sign her drawings until she is recognized as an artist.
(d) That she has come up with a good signature.

3. What happens one day when Lina is sent off the train?
(a) Nothing out of the ordinary.
(b) She trips and breaks her hand.
(c) She considers running away.
(d) She is accosted by a soldier.

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

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

6. Why does Andrius pull Jonas away?
(a) So he is not hit by a guard for being too slow.
(b) So he is not run over by a truck coming in with more prisoners.
(c) So he doesn't see what happens to Ona.
(d) So he is not separated from his family.

7. What interests Jonas about the farm?
(a) The farming methods they use.
(b) Nothing about the farm interests Jonas.
(c) The water irrigation method.
(d) The food that is available.

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

9. What did Lina once say about Stalin?
(a) He saved Russia from starvation.
(b) He was a hero.
(c) He should be run out of Lithuania.
(d) He should be hanged.

10. Who is in the hut where Lina's family is assigned?
(a) A young man.
(b) No one.
(c) A young woman.
(d) An old woman.

11. What does Lina not tell her mother about Kostas?
(a) That he was gravely ill.
(b) That he knew he would not see them again.
(c) That he had been beaten.
(d) That he was going to Moscow to be tried for treason.

12. How many people are left at the opening to Chapter 25?
(a) Two families and one guard.
(b) A few people and fewer guards.
(c) Just the bald men and Lina's family.
(d) Most of the people are still there.

13. What does Elena learn about Germany?
(a) They have invaded Switzerland.
(b) They have invaded Lithuania.
(c) They have surrendered.
(d) They have invaded England.

14. What is Lina thinking about at the opening of the novel?
(a) The way her father overprotected her.
(b) The time her brother drowned.
(c) The time leading up to being taken prisoner.
(d) Her fifteenth birthday.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lina tell her mother about people in the other cars?

2. What is Jonas afraid of at one point?

3. What does the gray-haired man notice Lina doing?

4. What does Elena tell Mrs. Rimas?

5. What is a kolkhoz?

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