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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the commander do for hours?
(a) Slaps and kicks the prisoners.
(b) Questions those who are to be transferred.
(c) Try to talk the prisoners into signing the document.
(d) Questions those who are to be released.

2. Why does Lina not go to find Jonas?
(a) Her mother said she is going to find him.
(b) She is told Jonas was taken to the hospital where she cannot go.
(c) She does not know where to look.
(d) The soldiers won't let her.

3. What does Lina learn when she works in the beet field?
(a) The soldiers are planning something.
(b) Many people eat the beets raw with dirt on them as they work.
(c) Stealing a beet is very difficult.
(d) Many beets are left to rot in the field.

4. What is Trofimovsk?
(a) A new canning plant.
(b) A weapons manufacture complex.
(c) The camp where the prisoners arrive.
(d) A fairly new research facility.

5. Why is Lina embarrassed?
(a) The prisoners have to undres in front of the soldiers.
(b) The prisoners are given better food and many fight others for the food.
(c) The prisoners are strip searched.
(d) She loses her head for a minute and cries in front of the soldiers.

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

7. How do the women act the rest of the day after the soldiers try to scare them?
(a) They mumble bad things about the soldiers.
(b) They try to find some humor in the situation.
(c) They cry as they work.
(d) They do not speak.

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

9. When are the prisoners taken to the military office?
(a) Right when they get off working.
(b) Very early one morning.
(c) In the middle of the night.
(d) At their noon break.

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

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

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jonas find?

2. What does Lina wonder about the visitors?

3. What do Andrius and his mother send?

4. What letter does Lina remember?

5. Who does Lina see outside when the train stops?

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