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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 Jonas have that they try to keep from the Altai woman?
(a) A bunch of onions.
(b) 3 potatoes.
(c) A head of cabbage.
(d) 3 beets.

2. What is Mrs. Arvydas doing?
(a) Sewing.
(b) Begging for another potato.
(c) Crying.
(d) Laughing with some of the soldiers.

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

4. For what does Lina beg Kretsky?
(a) Medical attention for Jonas.
(b) Medical attention for Elena.
(c) Some extra rations.
(d) Another pair of mittens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Elena and Jonas say Andrius is courageous?

2. How is Andrius able to stay at the camp?

3. Why can't Mr. Stalas work?

4. What interrupts the people's celebration?

5. Where has the boat crossed when the prisoners start getting excited that they are going to America?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Andrius say about his mother and why she is doing what she does?

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

10. What happens to Jonas?

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