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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ona's baby?
(a) The baby becomes listless.
(b) The baby has croup.
(c) The baby dies.
(d) The baby starts doing better.

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

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

4. What conversation with her father does Lina recall?
(a) About the people in this area of Russia.
(b) About the best methods of mass food production.
(c) About peasants.
(d) About Stalin's agricultural policies.

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

6. What does Lina know her father and Miss Grybas are on?
(a) A lorry.
(b) A secret committee.
(c) She knows nothing about them being on something.
(d) A list.

7. What are they forced to do?
(a) Gather food from a field.
(b) Burn their old clothes.
(c) Undress in front of the soldiers.
(d) Sit back to back and be tied.

8. Where is Elena ordered to go?
(a) To another hut to nurse an ill man.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) Inside an office.
(d) To a woman's collective nearby.

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

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

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

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

13. How does Elena manage to keep Jonas with them?
(a) Demands to see the papers that would send him somewhere else.
(b) She is not successful in keeping Jonas with them.
(c) Makes a plea to a female soldier as a mother.
(d) Bribes a soldier.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Elena promised in return?

2. How many people are left at the opening to Chapter 25?

3. What does Lina explain to the gray-haired man?

4. For what does the train stop?

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

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