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

2. How does Lina's family get to their new destination?
(a) All the way on unheated military trucks.
(b) On a train the whole way.
(c) First by truck and then by train.
(d) Walking.

3. What does Jonas give Andrius?
(a) A book.
(b) A knife.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A stone.

4. 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 does not care what happens.
(c) She says she is simply cold.
(d) She says the soldiers are too cold to come out and catch her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupts the people's celebration?

2. What does Jonas have that they try to keep from the Altai woman?

3. From what book of the Bible is there a reference in Mrs. Rimas' letter?

4. What does a Siberian woman offer?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Lina observe about Andrius' mother when Lina slips away after eating her potato that Jonas brought?

8. What does Lina steal and how does she explain it to Andrius?

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

10. What do readers learn in the Epilogue?

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