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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lina remember about why a teacher singled her out?
(a) The teacher seemed to know something about Lina's father.
(b) The teacher is impressed with Lina's drawing abilities.
(c) The teacher was prejudice because Lina is Jewish.
(d) The teacher was loyal to Russia.

2. What does Lina tell her mother about people in the other cars?
(a) They look like they've given up hope.
(b) Nothing as she can't see the others.
(c) They look like they are eating better.
(d) They look sick.

3. What does Lina recall drawing?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her dog.
(d) Her father.

4. What does Andrius Arnydas say about his father?
(a) His father is in the Lithuanian Army.
(b) His father is on his way to Moscow to appeal the sentence.
(c) His father knows Stalin and will come to get him.
(d) His father was just killed by soldiers last week.

5. What is in one corner of the hut?
(a) A table.
(b) A hutch.
(c) A stove.
(d) A privy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jonas afraid of at one point?

2. How does Lina distract the soldier watching Elena?

3. What are they forced to do?

4. What does Lina not tell her mother about Kostas?

5. What does Lina explain to the gray-haired man?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Ona?

2. What upsets Lina about being told to shower but why is she happy?

3. What does Lina's father say to Lina?

4. Why are Ona and the bald man in danger and what do the others do?

5. How does Lina's quick thinking help her mother?

6. What happens one day when it is Lina's turn to take the buckets for the food and water?

7. What happens when Lina's family is first on the train?

8. Who does Lina recognize on the truck and what does one prisoner do and what happens to him?

9. What does Lina recall about a shopping trip with her mother once?

10. Why does Elena rush her children and what is the mood when they get back on the truck?

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