View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Elena learn that makes her collapse?
(a) That her husband has been killed in prison.
(b) That they are going to be shot.
(c) That Jonas is being sent away.
(d) That Lina is being sent away.

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

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

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

5. What does Joana not understand about her father's actions?
(a) Why he was so explosive in temperament.
(b) Why he said Lina could not go with them.
(c) Why he would be packing up his medical books.
(d) Why he refused to let her go to school.

6. What does Andrius tell Lina when she sees him as she leaves Mr. Stalas?
(a) He is going to escape.
(b) His family has been pardoned.
(c) The blond soldier's name.
(d) His father is arriving the next day.

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

8. What do the soldiers tell the woman who have been digging to do?
(a) Cook the soldiers some food.
(b) Go back to their huts.
(c) Get into the hole.
(d) Do the soldiers' laundry.

9. What interrupts the people's celebration?
(a) The arrival of guards.
(b) Jonas falling ill again.
(c) Andrius screaming.
(d) Lina finding a puppy.

10. Who does Lina see outside when the train stops?
(a) Kretsky.
(b) Andrius.
(c) Lukas.
(d) Her father.

11. What do Lina and Elena stop doing?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Asking for help.
(c) Talking to Mrs. Rimas.
(d) Worrying about Jonas as he is better.

12. What is good about the time around Christmas?
(a) The snow has abated somewhat.
(b) The people are feeling a little optimistic.
(c) The administrator allows them to go into the village.
(d) It is so cold, the guards don't venture out much.

13. What does Lina find that she decides to smuggle back to camp?
(a) A live rabbit in a trap.
(b) A dead rabbit.
(c) A dead wolverine.
(d) A dead owl.

14. What does Lina say to Andrius as they wait for Elena to return?
(a) She is sorry about his mother.
(b) She is sorry for misjuding him.
(c) She wishes she could understand him better.
(d) She wishes life were different for them.

15. About whom does Lina think as they are eating?
(a) Kretsky.
(b) Andrius.
(c) Mr. Stalas.
(d) Her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother of a girl who dies do?

2. What does Lina steal?

3. What does Elena notice about Andrius and Lina?

4. Who is Ulyushka?

5. What have Andrius and his mother decided to do?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 551 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample