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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the soldiers want Elena to do?
(a) Spy on the others.
(b) Write a letter.
(c) Take charge of the farm.
(d) Work as the secretary.

3. How long does the officer give the family to pack?
(a) No time.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 2 days.
(d) One hour.

4. What do the train occupants do when it rains?
(a) Hold cups out to catch the water.
(b) Huddle in one corner where there are no drips.
(c) Sing loudly to drone out the noise of the rain hitting the roof.
(d) Try to clean themselves.

5. What made Lina angry about her conversation with her father?
(a) That the people in this area of Russia are considered inferior.
(b) That the best methods of food production were ignored.
(c) The way Stalin took the land away from individuals.
(d) That peasants are considered expendable.

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

7. What does Lina's mother do with the family photos?
(a) Puts them in the hat bands.
(b) Mail them to relatives in Poland.
(c) Burns them.
(d) Mail them to relatives in the United States.

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

9. What does Andrius do and Lina and Jonas go along?
(a) To ask where they are going.
(b) To search for his father.
(c) To find some food.
(d) To try to escape.

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

11. What are they told when the truck stops?
(a) They must wait here for several more days.
(b) They are free to go.
(c) They can shower.
(d) They need to start digging.

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

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

14. To what summer program did Lina once apply for entrance?
(a) Art program in Minsk.
(b) Art program in Vilnius.
(c) Music school in Kuanas.
(d) Sports program.

15. What does Lina tell her mother about people in the other cars?
(a) Nothing as she can't see the others.
(b) They look like they are eating better.
(c) They look sick.
(d) They look like they've given up hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lina remember about why a teacher singled her out?

2. What month do the soldiers come to Lina's home?

3. What does Andrius Arnydas say about his father?

4. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?

5. How many people does Lina count in the train car?

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