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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Ona like when she undresses?
(a) She is leaking milk still.
(b) Her legs are caked in blood.
(c) She is mottled in hives.
(d) She still looks pregnant.

5. What drawing that Lina did once infuriated Lina's father?
(a) Stalin hanging from a noose.
(b) Stalin in a Santa Claus suit.
(c) Elena's family huddled in fear.
(d) Stalin in a clown suit.

6. What does Ona do when they are loaded back on the trucks?
(a) She whimpers.
(b) She starts chanting loudly.
(c) She refuses to speak.
(d) She sobs.

7. What does Lina realize about her parents' plans?
(a) To escape the country.
(b) To appeal to Stalin for clemency.
(c) To hide among Christian friends.
(d) That they had made no plans.

8. Who takes care of doing what has to be done concerning Ona's baby?
(a) Miss Grybas.
(b) Elena.
(c) The bald man.
(d) Lina.

9. What does Elena tell Mrs. Rimas?
(a) She hopes her mother will find a way to bring them to France.
(b) She is going to start growing her own food.
(c) She hopes to send a letter out of the nearby post office.
(d) She hopes her husband will be released soon.

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

11. 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 try to get more food.
(d) That they should have gone with Elena.

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

13. What does Jonas do without complaint?
(a) Carris the dog.
(b) Carries a large suitcase.
(c) Hides in the cupboard.
(d) Puts on three layers of clothing.

14. What does Lina realize when her mother tells her to button her coat?
(a) That their father has already been taken.
(b) That Lina is still in her nightgown.
(c) That her cat ran out the front door.
(d) That Jonas is missing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Elena pay a woman in the hut?

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

3. What does Lina know her father and Miss Grybas are on?

4. What happens one day when Lina is sent off the train?

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

(see the answer keys)

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