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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Elena ignore?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her old schoolteacher.
(c) Her uncle.
(d) Her best friend.

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

3. What month do the soldiers come to Lina's home?
(a) January.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) August.

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

5. What happens when a man jumps off the truck?
(a) He breaks his leg.
(b) He is left lying in the mud.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He breaks his arm.

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 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 some sort of plan.
(d) He has talked to his father.

8. What is in one corner of the hut?
(a) A privy.
(b) A table.
(c) A hutch.
(d) A stove.

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

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

11. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?
(a) Keep her baby while she tries to find some food for the child.
(b) Not give her baby to the soldiers.
(c) Help her escape.
(d) Help her care for her baby.

12. What does Lina recall drawing?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her dog.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

13. Where is Elena ordered to go?
(a) Nowhere.
(b) To a woman's collective nearby.
(c) Inside an office.
(d) To another hut to nurse an ill man.

14. What do the soldiers want Elena to do?
(a) Take charge of the farm.
(b) Spy on the others.
(c) Write a letter.
(d) Work as the secretary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonas do without complaint?

2. Who does the bald man say is worse than Stalin?

3. What does Andrius Arnydas say about his father?

4. What does a grouchy woman in the group that Elena's family is in say?

5. Where is the farming area where the trucks arrive?

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