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

2. What do the soldiers start throwing in the dirt?
(a) Food.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Clothing.
(d) Papers.

3. What surprises Lina one night when she turns sixteen?
(a) Kretsky brings a cake for her birthday.
(b) Elena gives Lina half the family's jfewels that are left.
(c) Andrius kisses Lina.
(d) A party in her honor.

4. About what does the commander renege?
(a) A promise of less hours of work per day.
(b) A promise of an increase in food allotments.
(c) A promise of freedom after the New Year.
(d) A promise of potatoes for the drawing.

5. What does Elena notice about Andrius and Lina?
(a) They avoid each other.
(b) They seem to hate each other.
(c) They are getting close.
(d) They are nicer to each other than they had been.

Short Answer Questions

1. About whom does Lina think as they are eating?

2. What habit does Alexandras Lukas have?

3. What do Andrius and his mother send?

4. Why are the prisoners given more food than usual?

5. How do the soldiers try to frighten the women?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What has Hitler done in Lithuania, and what is the bald man's response to the action?

4. 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?

5. What happens to Jonas?

6. Why does Elena collapse one day?

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

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

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

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

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