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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 tell Lina when she sees him as she leaves Mr. Stalas?
(a) His family has been pardoned.
(b) He is going to escape.
(c) His father is arriving the next day.
(d) The blond soldier's name.

2. About what does the commander renege?
(a) A promise of an increase in food allotments.
(b) A promise of freedom after the New Year.
(c) A promise of potatoes for the drawing.
(d) A promise of less hours of work per day.

3. What do Elena and Lina ask of the others?
(a) To try to find more fruit.
(b) To cover for them in the fields so they can nurse Jonas.
(c) To try to bribe the soldiers for citrus.
(d) To help provide extra food for Jonas.

4. What does Elena notice about Andrius and Lina?
(a) They are nicer to each other than they had been.
(b) They are getting close.
(c) They avoid each other.
(d) They seem to hate each other.

5. What does Elena say in her letters?
(a) The soldiers beat them regularly.
(b) The conditions are barbaric.
(c) Code to express the conditions.
(d) Nothing; they are not allowed to write.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the women act the rest of the day after the soldiers try to scare them?

2. What does Lina say when Andrius asks her if she is scared as she is stealing logs?

3. What is Lina going to be asked to do?

4. About whom does Lina think as they are eating?

5. What do they learn about the Japanese?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lina learn from the bald man about their captivity?

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

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

4. What do readers learn in the Epilogue?

5. What does Elena have Lina do for Mr. Stalas, and what is Lina's response to the task?

6. What news does Mrs. Rimas recieve in a letter and how is it coded?

7. Describe the encounter between Kretsky and Lina at the wood pile.

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

9. 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?

10. How does Kretsky show his humanity after they have frightened the women?

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