2. What do Lina and Jonas realize about their mother?
(a) She is secretly seeing the soldiers to beg for more supplies.
(b) She has withdrawn.
(c) She is giving the two of them most of her food rations.
(d) She has given up hope.

3. How does Lina's family get to their new destination?
(a) On a train the whole way.
(b) First by truck and then by train.
(c) Walking.
(d) All the way on unheated military trucks.

4. When are the prisoners allowed to gather wood and other materials for their camp?
(a) When they have breaks during the day.
(b) All day.
(c) After working.
(d) Never.

5. What letter does Lina remember?
(a) One from her uncle.
(b) One from Joana.
(c) One from her mother when she is at art camp.
(d) One from her father.

6. What are the prisoners told they have to do?
(a) Work in the weapons factory.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Sign papers or they'll be shot.
(d) Build their own shelters.

7. What does Janina tell the bald man?
(a) Hitler is turning out to be worse than Stalin.
(b) Hitler might be killing Jews.
(c) Her family hid his daughter.
(d) Her family knows his son.

8. What secret does the bald man tell Lina?
(a) That her parents helped Joana's family escape.
(b) That Andrius likes her.
(c) That Stalin made an agreement with the Lithuanian government.
(d) That Lina's mother has been an undercover spy for years.

9. Why does Elena think Kretsky was assigned to go with them to Siberia?
(a) For refusing to divulge information about his family.
(b) For disobeying a lawful order.
(c) She has no idea.
(d) For helping the prisoners.

10. How is Andrius able to stay at the camp?
(a) He prostitutes himself to the soldiers who like men.
(b) He does all the paperwork for the commandant.
(c) He pretends to be stupid.
(d) His mother prostitutes herself as a bribe.

11. Why do Elena and Jonas say Andrius is courageous?
(a) For standing up to the guards.
(b) For getting food for them on occasion.
(c) For sneaking out of the camp sometimes.
(d) For taking care of Mr. Stalas.

12. Why do the soldiers pay no attention to the prisoners?
(a) The prisoners are so skinny as to be androgynous.
(b) Their commandant orders them to turn their heads.
(c) The soldiers have nice-looking town girls around them.
(d) The soldiers know the prisoners can't escape.

13. What does Jonas give Andrius?
(a) A stone.
(b) A book.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A knife.

14. What can Lina not get over?
(a) That Andrius did not come with them.
(b) That her family is there while Joana's family is comfortable in Germany.
(c) That Kretsky has been so kind.
(d) That the bald man would know about her family when she did not.

15. What does Lina learn about Jonas?
(a) He is very ill.
(b) He has escaped.
(c) He has been conscripted for Stalin's army.
(d) He has been injured.