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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lina remember about why a teacher singled her out?
(a) The teacher was prejudice because Lina is Jewish.
(b) The teacher is impressed with Lina's drawing abilities.
(c) The teacher seemed to know something about Lina's father.
(d) The teacher was loyal to Russia.

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

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

5. Why are two of the prisoners in danger?
(a) They are talking loudly.
(b) They can't walk.
(c) They are not Russians.
(d) They make critical statements about Stalin.

6. What is obvious about Andrius when he gets back to their railroad car?
(a) He is dispirited.
(b) He has been brutally beaten.
(c) He has talked to his father.
(d) He has some sort of plan.

7. For what does Elena pay a woman in the hut?
(a) For bread.
(b) For information.
(c) For a potato and to use the stove.
(d) For some coffee.

8. 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.

9. What is grown on this farm?
(a) Soybeans and beets.
(b) Beets and potatoes.
(c) Potatoes and corn.
(d) Wheat and corn.

10. What was Elena promised in return?
(a) Her children would be safe.
(b) A larger ration of food.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Freedom in one year.

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

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

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

14. What does Lina's mother do with their best jewelry?
(a) Buries it in the backyard.
(b) Gives it to Christian neighbors for safekeeping.
(c) Sews it into the linings of the coats.
(d) Hides it in the cellar.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About how big is the hut in which Lina the others live?

3. What interests Jonas about the farm?

4. Who directs the packing?

5. What day does Lina recall as she is falling asleep?

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