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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Elena pull Lina away from a guard?
(a) He is hitting her.
(b) He is trying to put her on the truck.
(c) He is trying to make her go into the woods.
(d) He is touching her.

5. What does Andrius Arnydas say about his father?
(a) His father is on his way to Moscow to appeal the sentence.
(b) His father knows Stalin and will come to get him.
(c) His father was just killed by soldiers last week.
(d) His father is in the Lithuanian Army.

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

7. What do the women do to relieve stress?
(a) Talk kindly with the guards.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Try to use humor.
(d) Cry.

8. What are the daily rations like?
(a) Fairly clean water and dried beef.
(b) Dirty water and gruel.
(c) They get no rations.
(d) They only are given rations once a week.

9. How many people does Lina count in the train car?
(a) 21.
(b) 46.
(c) 75.
(d) 15.

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

11. Who does the bald man say is worse than Stalin?
(a) No one.
(b) The last tsar.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Mussolini.

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

13. What happens one day when the train comes to a stop?
(a) The people are turned over to the Germans.
(b) The people are set free.
(c) The people are massacred.
(d) The people find themselves in open countryside.

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

15. What is Jonas afraid of at one point?
(a) That he is going to be left alone.
(b) That he iss going to be taken to be with the men.
(c) That he has wet his pants.
(d) That he iss going to be ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Rimas?

2. About what does Jonas worry while waiting for Elena?

3. How many people are left at the opening to Chapter 25?

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

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

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