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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Ona?
(a) The woman who just gave birth.
(b) The matron who is searching the female prisoners.
(c) The train's conductor.
(d) One of the soldiers.

3. When does Elena think the Soviets will be stopped?
(a) When Stalin is dead.
(b) When the rest of the world learns what they are doing.
(c) When WWII is over.
(d) When all of Lithuania stands up united.

4. Where does the truck go from Lina's house?
(a) To the airport.
(b) To the prison.
(c) To the morgue.
(d) To the hospital.

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

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

7. Who is in the hut where Lina's family is assigned?
(a) No one.
(b) A young man.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A young woman.

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

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

10. What does a grouchy woman in the group that Elena's family is in say?
(a) That maybe they are free to go.
(b) That they have been liberated by the Germans.
(c) That Elena should not put on airs.
(d) That Elena and the others had made them seem weak.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is obvious about Andrius when he gets back to their railroad car?

2. Who does Elena ignore?

3. What does Elena tell Mrs. Rimas?

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

5. What does Ona do when they are loaded back on the trucks?

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