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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 Andrius bring for Jonas?
(a) A can of tomatoes.
(b) A can of pears.
(c) A bottle of castor oil.
(d) A can of orange juice.

2. Why do the soldiers pay no attention to the prisoners?
(a) Their commandant orders them to turn their heads.
(b) The prisoners are so skinny as to be androgynous.
(c) The soldiers have nice-looking town girls around them.
(d) The soldiers know the prisoners can't escape.

3. What does Lina say when Andrius asks her if she is scared as she is stealing logs?
(a) She says Kretsky gave her permissioni.
(b) She says she is simply cold.
(c) She says she does not care what happens.
(d) She says the soldiers are too cold to come out and catch her.

4. What does Lina learn about Jonas?
(a) He is very ill.
(b) He has been conscripted for Stalin's army.
(c) He has been injured.
(d) He has escaped.

5. How much time has passed as Jonas is improving?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 1 month.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 2 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't Mr. Stalas work?

2. What does Jonas realize that evening when Elena and Lina return to the hut?

3. What interrupts the people's celebration?

4. Why does Lina not go to find Jonas?

5. What does Lina give Andrius for Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do readers learn in the Epilogue?

2. What happens to Jonas?

3. How do the soldiers thrown out into the snow one day when Lina and Jonas are going to the kitchen and why do they eat the food immediately?

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

5. Why are the prisoners waked in the middle of the night and what do they do?

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

7. What do the prisoners learn about the Japanese and Hitler?

8. What has Hitler done in Lithuania, and what is the bald man's response to the action?

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

10. What does Lina wonder when an American ship arrives?

(see the answer keys)

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