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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 do Lina and Elena stop doing?
(a) Worrying about Jonas as he is better.
(b) Asking for help.
(c) Working in the fields.
(d) Talking to Mrs. Rimas.

2. Where does Andrius say he got what he brought for Jonas?
(a) Steals it.
(b) Sneaks into the village and buys it from a villager.
(c) Buys it on the black market.
(d) He does not say.

3. What does Lina say when Andrius asks her if she is scared as she is stealing logs?
(a) She says she does not care what happens.
(b) She says Kretsky gave her permissioni.
(c) She says the soldiers are too cold to come out and catch her.
(d) She says she is simply cold.

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

5. What payment does the bald man ask in return for revealing the secret?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The use of her ear muffs for a few minutes.
(c) An extra ration for two days.
(d) The use of her mittens for a few minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the soldiers start throwing in the dirt?

2. What does Elena learn that makes her collapse?

3. What does Lina give Andrius for Christmas?

4. Why can't Mr. Stalas work?

5. What does Janina's mother almost do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do the prisoners have to do immediately when they arrive at Trofimovsk?

8. Why does Elena collapse one day?

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

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

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