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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 the grouchy woman provide for the celebration?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Biscuits.
(c) A brief Christmas story preformance.
(d) Music.

2. What does Janina tell the bald man?
(a) Hitler might be killing Jews.
(b) Hitler is turning out to be worse than Stalin.
(c) Her family hid his daughter.
(d) Her family knows his son.

3. What does the mother of a girl who dies do?
(a) Attacks the doctor.
(b) Jumps off the train when the girl's body is removed.
(c) Attacks a soldier.
(d) Nothing.

4. What does Lina say to Andrius as they wait for Elena to return?
(a) She wishes life were different for them.
(b) She wishes she could understand him better.
(c) She is sorry for misjuding him.
(d) She is sorry about his mother.

5. Why are the prisoners forced to hide?
(a) They are not forced to hide.
(b) A British ship arrives.
(c) A large group of German prisoners arrive.
(d) An American ship arrives.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Lina and Elena stop doing?

2. What does Lina steal?

3. Who is Ulyushka?

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

5. What does everyone bring to the Christmas Eve celebration?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the story behind the stone that Jonas gives Andrius?

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

7. 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?

8. What letter does Lina remember receiving once from Joana?

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

10. How does Elena and Jonas praise Andrius and what is Lina's feeling about the praise?

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