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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Letters from Rifka" begins in September of what year?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1896.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1919.

2. What does Saul buy every morning for his and Rifka's breakfast?
(a) Cheese and biscuits.
(b) Apples and rolls.
(c) Rolls and coffee.
(d) Herring and rolls.

3. What kind of fruit does Rifka buy from the vendor at the steamship dock?
(a) Orange.
(b) Cherries.
(c) Apple.
(d) Pear.

4. Which of the following does NOT describe what Rifka sees in Poland, which is just like her hometown in Russia?
(a) Flower boxes on windowsills.
(b) Patchy roads.
(c) Crooked cottages.
(d) Bony fences.

5. What is Rifka's hometown?
(a) Berchidev.
(b) Spassk.
(c) Moscow.
(d) Abinsk.

6. What is the name of the town where Rifka's family is stranded in Poland?
(a) Motziv.
(b) Lublin.
(c) Wroclaw.
(d) Lodz.

7. Why is Rifka's family stranded in Poland?
(a) Broken train track.
(b) Illness.
(c) Lack of money.
(d) Government orders.

8. Who are Rifka's brothers?
(a) Saul and Pieter.
(b) Aleksandr and Pieter.
(c) Nathan and Saul.
(d) Nathan and Aleksandr.

9. Rifka states that life in Russia is good for Tovah because ___________________.
(a) she got disability payments.
(b) she is not Jewish.
(c) she went to a special school.
(d) her family had money.

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

11. Where is Rifka sent to get treatment for her disease?
(a) France.
(b) Ireland.
(c) England.
(d) Belgium.

12. Entering _____________ is Rifka's first time in another country.
(a) Poland.
(b) Mongolia.
(c) Germany.
(d) China.

13. What does Rifka do for a girl on the train to Warsaw?
(a) Holds her baby.
(b) Gives her a roll.
(c) Reads some poetry.
(d) Fixes her hair.

14. What do the guards make Rifka's family do at the Polish border?
(a) Remove their clothes.
(b) Lie on the ground.
(c) Put on blindfolds.
(d) Stand up against the train.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the medical student say that Rifka contracted her disease?

2. Which one of Rifka's family members is the first to get ill on the train?

3. Where does Rifka's family stay while stranded in Poland?

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

5. Rifka says the guard speak ill of her family because ___________________.

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