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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What disease does Rifka have that prevents her from getting a ticket to America?
(a) Measles.
(b) Shingles.
(c) Ringworm.
(d) Chicken Pox.

3. In what city will Rifka live to get treatment for her disease?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Antwerp.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) Berlin.

4. What organization provides aid to Rifka's family in Warsaw?
(a) The Polish Embassy.
(b) Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
(c) Doctors Without Borders.
(d) The Red Cross.

5. What is the ultimate destination of Rifka and her family?
(a) Canada.
(b) America.
(c) France.
(d) England.

6. Where does Rifka's family stay while stranded in Poland?
(a) Papa's cousin's house.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A church.
(d) An inn.

7. What job does Saul get while waiting on his family to get well?
(a) He sorts apples in an orchard.
(b) He builds houses with a construction company.
(c) He mops floors at the train station.
(d) He washes dishes in a restaurant.

8. Rifka has a nightmare that people are trying to steal _____________________.
(a) Her coins.
(b) Mama's candlesticks.
(c) Her book.
(d) Papa's pipe.

9. Where are Rifka's family members taken when they get ill?
(a) A clinic.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A medical tent.
(d) A church.

10. Who is Rifka's grandmother?
(a) Bubbe Ruth.
(b) Bubbe Mila.
(c) Bubbe Yulia.
(d) Bubbe Natalia.

11. What color is Rifka's hair?
(a) Black.
(b) Red.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Brown.

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

13. How does Rifka feel when she realizes that the item in #29 has been stolen from her rucksack?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Humiliated.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Sad.

14. Where does the medical student say that Rifka contracted her disease?
(a) Water from a pond.
(b) A Polish train station.
(c) Somewhere in Russia.
(d) On the train.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rifka's prognosis according to the medical student?

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

3. Where does Saul find a place for him and Rifka to stay?

4. What kind of fruit does Rifka buy from the vendor at the steamship dock?

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

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