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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) Smuggling food to an elderly woman.
(c) Stealing wood.
(d) Working on the assembly line.

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

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

4. What does Lina steal?
(a) Logs.
(b) A few wilted vegetables.
(c) A few moldy potatoes.
(d) More beets.

5. Who is Ulyushka?
(a) The nurse who visits once a week.
(b) The doctor who visits once a month.
(c) The administrator of the farm.
(d) The old woman with whom Lina's family lives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Lina see outside when the train stops?

2. Why are the prisoners forced to hide?

3. Why does Elena think Kretsky was assigned to go with them to Siberia?

4. What has Andrius considered doing for his mother?

5. What does the mother of a girl who dies do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Elena have Lina do for Mr. Stalas, and what is Lina's response to the task?

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

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

6. What does Lina wonder when an American ship arrives?

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

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

9. Describe the Christmas celebration.

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

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