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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. What does Elena learn from someone about food?
(a) They have to grow their own food.
(b) It comes in from another farm.
(c) There is plenty but the same day after day.
(d) It is strictly rationed.

7. What does Elena give the bald man?
(a) Her ham.
(b) A book.
(c) Some chocolate.
(d) Some rags to splint his leg.

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

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

11. Why do they wait for hours at their next stop?
(a) For the train to arrive.
(b) For the men's truck to arrive.
(c) For some papers to arrive.
(d) For a woman to give birth.

12. What does Lina's father tell her to continue doing?
(a) Praying.
(b) Being so grown up.
(c) Drawing.
(d) Writing.

13. What does Lina explain to the gray-haired man?
(a) That the ring will buy them food so she wants to keep it clean.
(b) That the symbols will give the next group hope.
(c) That the drawings will be a way to communicate with her father.
(d) That the song is in protest.

14. What does Lina realize about the possibility of running?
(a) The people in this area don't even speak their language.
(b) The guards still have guns.
(c) There would be no point as there's nowhere to go.
(d) Their new situation might not be too bad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What drawing that Lina did once infuriated Lina's father?

2. How does Elena manage to keep Jonas with them?

3. Where does the train split off with the men?

4. Who is Mrs. Rimas?

5. What made Lina angry about her conversation with her father?

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