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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 is a kolkhoz?
(a) A collection of tools.
(b) A foundry.
(c) A community of buildings.
(d) A collective farm.

2. Why do they wait for hours at their next stop?
(a) For the men's truck to arrive.
(b) For some papers to arrive.
(c) For a woman to give birth.
(d) For the train to arrive.

3. Who does the bald man say is worse than Stalin?
(a) The last tsar.
(b) Hitler.
(c) No one.
(d) Mussolini.

4. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?
(a) Help her care for her baby.
(b) Keep her baby while she tries to find some food for the child.
(c) Help her escape.
(d) Not give her baby to the soldiers.

5. What does the gray-haired man notice Lina doing?
(a) Drawing.
(b) Composing a song.
(c) Polishing a ring.
(d) Drawing patriotic symbols on the wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the train occupants do when it rains?

2. What does a grouchy woman in the group that Elena's family is in say?

3. How often does the train stop?

4. What does Lina realize when her mother tells her to button her coat?

5. What does Lina's father give Lina?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Lina and Elena do on their first day?

2. What happens to Ona?

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

4. What does Lina keep from her mother about Kostas?

5. Describe the arrest of Lina's family.

6. How do Lina, Elena and Mrs. Rimas relieve the stress of the camp?

7. What are Elena, Lina and Jonas forced to do?

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

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

10. What does the bald man say about Hitler, and what does Lina think about it?

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