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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 is Lina going to be asked to do?
(a) Betray Andrius.
(b) Draw a portrait of the commander.
(c) Draw a map of the farm.
(d) Be the commander's secretary.

2. What does Lina watch Mrs. Rimas do one day?
(a) Feed a pigeon a few crumbs of bread.
(b) Whisper to a guard.
(c) Cram her entire ration of bread in her mouth at once.
(d) Offer Jonas half of her bread ration.

3. Where has the boat crossed when the prisoners start getting excited that they are going to America?
(a) The English Channel.
(b) The Black Sea.
(c) The Arctic Circle.
(d) They do not know where they are.

4. 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.

5. What does Jonas realize that evening when Elena and Lina return to the hut?
(a) They are laughing more.
(b) They are happier.
(c) They are not hungry.
(d) Something has happened.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lina learn about Jonas?

2. What is Trofimovsk?

3. What does Jonas give Andrius?

4. What does Lina do the next time she sees Andrius?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Jonas?

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

4. Why does Elena collapse one day?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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