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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the gray-haired man notice Lina doing?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Polishing a ring.
(c) Composing a song.
(d) Drawing patriotic symbols on the wall.

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

4. How does the bald man feel about the news about Germany?
(a) Angry.
(b) Indifferent.
(c) Unhappy.
(d) Happy.

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

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

7. Why does Elena rush to get herself and Lina clean?
(a) She thinks the hot water will be gone quickly.
(b) She thinks the guards will limit their time in the showers.
(c) She is afraid for the two of them to be naked in front of the soldiers for long.
(d) She can hardly stand her smell.

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

9. What is a kolkhoz?
(a) A collection of tools.
(b) A foundry.
(c) A community of buildings.
(d) A collective farm.

10. What does Ona finally agree to do?
(a) Get trying to escape.
(b) Let another woman help with nursing the new baby.
(c) Feed her baby human food.
(d) Let her baby be dropped through the bathroom hole.

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

12. What does a guard do to quiet Ona?
(a) Slaps her.
(b) Puts a gag in her mouth.
(c) Kills her.
(d) Intimidates her.

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

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

15. What day does Lina recall as she is falling asleep?
(a) The day the soldiers came.
(b) Her twelth birthday.
(c) The day she was accepted into the art program.
(d) Her cat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lina once say about Stalin?

2. What does Lina not tell her mother about Kostas?

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

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

5. What is grown on this farm?

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