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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September 2 - February 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of Rifka's family members is the first to get ill on the train?
(a) Rifka.
(b) Mama.
(c) Saul.
(d) Nathan.

2. Rifka recalls that Mama always liked to ________________ at home.
(a) sing.
(b) bake.
(c) plant flowers.
(d) paint.

3. Who had made the undergarments Rifka wears?
(a) Aunt Natalia.
(b) Aunt Katya.
(c) Aunt Zasha.
(d) Aunt Rachel.

4. Rifka carried a book written by which Russian poet?
(a) Tolstoy.
(b) Pasternak.
(c) Akhmatova.
(d) Pushkin.

5. Who is the only member of Rifka's family who does not get sick?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Papa.
(c) Mama.
(d) Saul.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rifka feel when she realizes that the item in #29 has been stolen from her rucksack?

2. Why is Rifka's family stranded in Poland?

3. Rifka writes in her letter that her family has escaped from which country?

4. What do the guards make Rifka's family do at the Polish border?

5. Who is the only one in Rifka's family who can speak Russian without a Yiddish accent?

(see the answer key)

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