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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. Where is the farming area where the trucks arrive?
(a) Near Luanas.
(b) Near Altai.
(c) Near Minsk.
(d) Near Lubovitch.

2. What is Ona like when she undresses?
(a) Her legs are caked in blood.
(b) She is leaking milk still.
(c) She is mottled in hives.
(d) She still looks pregnant.

3. For what does Elena pay a woman in the hut?
(a) For a potato and to use the stove.
(b) For some coffee.
(c) For information.
(d) For bread.

4. What does Lina's father tell her to continue doing?
(a) Praying.
(b) Being so grown up.
(c) Writing.
(d) Drawing.

5. What did Lina once say about Stalin?
(a) He saved Russia from starvation.
(b) He should be hanged.
(c) He should be run out of Lithuania.
(d) He was a hero.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a guard do to quiet Ona?

2. What does Lina realize her father meant when he told her to keep drawing?

3. What does Lina realize the priest is doing?

4. What interests Jonas about the farm?

5. When does Elena think the Soviets will be stopped?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Where do the prisoners arrive and where is Lina's family assigned?

4. What does Elena say the soldiers wanted of her and how does Jonas react to the information?

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

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

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

8. What is Lina thinking about as the story opens?

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

10. How do they dispose of Ona's baby's body?

(see the answer keys)

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