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

2. About whom does Lina think as they are eating?
(a) Kretsky.
(b) Her father.
(c) Mr. Stalas.
(d) Andrius.

3. What has Andrius considered doing for his mother?
(a) Trying to escape.
(b) Killing himself.
(c) Joining the army.
(d) Killing her.

4. What does Lina learn when she works in the beet field?
(a) Many beets are left to rot in the field.
(b) The soldiers are planning something.
(c) Stealing a beet is very difficult.
(d) Many people eat the beets raw with dirt on them as they work.

5. What is Alexandras Lukas' job?
(a) A farmer.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A soldier.
(d) A lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Siberian woman offer?

2. When are the prisoners taken to the military office?

3. Why are the prisoners forced to hide?

4. What does Lina say to Andrius as they wait for Elena to return?

5. How much time has passed as Jonas is improving?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Andrius and a Siberian woman help save Jonas' life?

2. How do the others help Lina celebrate her sixteenth birthday?

3. What do readers learn in the Epilogue?

4. What happens to Kretsky when the prisoners arrive at some port?

5. What event makes Lina and Elena decide to stop asking for extra food for Jonas?

6. What do the prisoners have to do immediately when they arrive at Trofimovsk?

7. Why are Lina, Elena, and Jonas quiet about the potatoes he brings home that night?

8. How do the soldiers harass and frighten the women who have been digging a large hole?

9. Why do the soldiers pay no attention as the prisoners strip for a shower?

10. What causes Lina to appreciate the risk that some take to get food for others?

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