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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 Elena ordered to go?
(a) Inside an office.
(b) To another hut to nurse an ill man.
(c) To a woman's collective nearby.
(d) Nowhere.

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

3. About what does Jonas worry while waiting for Elena?
(a) That their house back in their homeland is being ransacked.
(b) That they should try to get more food.
(c) That they should try to escape.
(d) That they should have gone with Elena.

4. What does Ona finally agree to do?
(a) Feed her baby human food.
(b) Let another woman help with nursing the new baby.
(c) Get trying to escape.
(d) Let her baby be dropped through the bathroom hole.

5. What do the train occupants do when it rains?
(a) Sing loudly to drone out the noise of the rain hitting the roof.
(b) Hold cups out to catch the water.
(c) Huddle in one corner where there are no drips.
(d) Try to clean themselves.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the farming area where the trucks arrive?

2. About what does Miss Grybas explain as the train continues south?

3. What does Lina's mother do with the family photos?

4. What does a guard do to quiet Ona?

5. Who is Miss Grybas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lina remember about her artistic abilities?

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

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

4. What does Lina realize about her father's words about drawing?

5. Describe the arrest of Lina's family.

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

7. Where are the prisoners and what does Lina remember about Stalin's agriculture policies?

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

9. What happens to Ona?

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

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