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

2. What does Elena say in her letters?
(a) Nothing; they are not allowed to write.
(b) The conditions are barbaric.
(c) The soldiers beat them regularly.
(d) Code to express the conditions.

3. What does Janina tell the bald man?
(a) Her family knows his son.
(b) Hitler might be killing Jews.
(c) Her family hid his daughter.
(d) Hitler is turning out to be worse than Stalin.

4. What habit does Alexandras Lukas have?
(a) Saying "alright."
(b) Winding his watch.
(c) Clearing his throat.
(d) Running his hand through his hair.

5. What is Lina doing when she sees her mother collapse?
(a) Smuggling food to an elderly woman.
(b) Working in the fields.
(c) Stealing wood.
(d) Working on the assembly line.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Andrius and his mother decided to do?

2. What secret does the bald man tell Lina?

3. Why can't Mr. Stalas work?

4. What does one of the men insist is happening to the prisoners?

5. What does Joana not understand about her father's actions?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the Christmas celebration.

7. What happens to Jonas?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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