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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 they learn about the Japanese?
(a) They bombed Pearl Harbor.
(b) They are defeated.
(c) Nothing.
(d) They have advanced to the Philippines.

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

3. What does Lina learn about Jonas?
(a) He has been conscripted for Stalin's army.
(b) He has been injured.
(c) He is very ill.
(d) He has escaped.

4. What is good about the time around Christmas?
(a) The snow has abated somewhat.
(b) The administrator allows them to go into the village.
(c) The people are feeling a little optimistic.
(d) It is so cold, the guards don't venture out much.

5. What have Andrius and his mother decided to do?
(a) Kill themselves together.
(b) Escape together.
(c) Use their privileges to gain food for the others.
(d) Try to get a pardon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What habit does Alexandras Lukas have?

2. What is Lina doing when she sees her mother collapse?

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

4. What does Mr. Lukas say is wrong with Jonas?

5. What does the old bald man say about himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What happens to Jonas?

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

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

5. What do readers learn in the Epilogue?

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

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

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

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

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

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