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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does everyone bring to the Christmas Eve celebration?
(a) Candy.
(b) A present for each other.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Their family photos.

3. Why can't Mr. Stalas work?
(a) He has bad back.
(b) He has a broken leg.
(c) He is ill.
(d) He has a broken arm.

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(c) She has withdrawn.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

5. What does the mother of a girl who dies do?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Jumps off the train when the girl's body is removed.
(c) Attacks a soldier.
(d) Attacks the doctor.

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

7. What do the soldiers start throwing in the dirt?
(a) Clothing.
(b) Papers.
(c) Food.
(d) Nothing.

8. Who helps Lina after the soldiers try to frighten the women?
(a) Andrius.
(b) Jonas.
(c) Kretsky.
(d) Mr. Stalas.

9. What does Kretsky tell Elena?
(a) They need an artist.
(b) Russia is about to be invaded.
(c) The Germans are getting closer.
(d) They are going to start killing the women.

10. Who is Ulyushka?
(a) The administrator of the farm.
(b) The old woman with whom Lina's family lives.
(c) The nurse who visits once a week.
(d) The doctor who visits once a month.

11. How much time has passed as Jonas is improving?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 2 days.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 weeks.

12. Who is Janina?
(a) A priest.
(b) A doctor who checks the passengers.
(c) A little girl who travels with them.
(d) A nurse who checks the passengers.

13. What does Lina steal?
(a) A few wilted vegetables.
(b) A few moldy potatoes.
(c) Logs.
(d) More beets.

14. What does Jonas realize that evening when Elena and Lina return to the hut?
(a) They are laughing more.
(b) They are not hungry.
(c) They are happier.
(d) Something has happened.

15. What does Lina give Andrius for Christmas?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The puppy she finds.
(c) A poem.
(d) A drawing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the prisoners told?

2. What does a Siberian woman offer?

3. What does Joana not understand about her father's actions?

4. What payment does the bald man ask in return for revealing the secret?

5. What does Elena have Lina take Mr. Stalas?

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