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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?
(a) Not give her baby to the soldiers.
(b) Keep her baby while she tries to find some food for the child.
(c) Help her care for her baby.
(d) Help her escape.

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

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

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

7. What does Lina remember as her mother is donning her coat?
(a) Her cat.
(b) Her favorite doll.
(c) The items sewn into the lining.
(d) Her best friend's book.

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

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

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

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

12. About what does Miss Grybas explain as the train continues south?
(a) The Ural Mountains.
(b) The topography that the Russians will have to cross.
(c) The way the various alliances are lined up in WWII.
(d) The topography that the Germans will have to cross.

13. What month do the soldiers come to Lina's home?
(a) September.
(b) August.
(c) January.
(d) June.

14. Who directs the packing?
(a) Lina.
(b) Each person packs for him/herself.
(c) Jona.
(d) Elena.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the truck go from Lina's house?

2. What are they told when the truck stops?

3. Why does Elena pull Lina away from a guard?

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

5. Why do they wait for hours at their next stop?

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