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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Andrius bring for Jonas?
(a) A can of orange juice.
(b) A can of pears.
(c) A can of tomatoes.
(d) A bottle of castor oil.

5. What is Mrs. Arvydas doing?
(a) Laughing with some of the soldiers.
(b) Crying.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Begging for another potato.

6. What does Elena have Lina take Mr. Stalas?
(a) A beet.
(b) Some medicine.
(c) A note.
(d) A potato.

7. What does a Siberian woman offer?
(a) A dose of vitamins.
(b) The makings of some tea to help Jonas.
(c) A jar of peaches.
(d) A fruit that only grows in that area.

8. What does Jonas find?
(a) An ax.
(b) A rifle.
(c) A barrel to be used as a stove.
(d) Some boxes of warm clothing.

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

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

11. What happens when Kretsky gets off the boat?
(a) He is given new orders.
(b) He is met by his sister.
(c) He is shot.
(d) He is ordered back on it.

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

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 about his mother.
(c) She is sorry for misjuding him.
(d) She wishes life were different for them.

14. What surprises Lina one night when she turns sixteen?
(a) A party in her honor.
(b) Kretsky brings a cake for her birthday.
(c) Elena gives Lina half the family's jfewels that are left.
(d) Andrius kisses Lina.

15. What is Lina doing when she sees her mother collapse?
(a) Smuggling food to an elderly woman.
(b) Working on the assembly line.
(c) Stealing wood.
(d) Working in the fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the old bald man say about himself?

2. Why is one man killed at the farm?

3. Why does Lina not go to find Jonas?

4. Why are the prisoners given more food than usual?

5. How many people are in their group?

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