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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the only one in Rifka's family who can speak Russian without a Yiddish accent?
(a) Mama.
(b) Rifka.
(c) Nathan.
(d) Papa.

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

4. Rifka writes in her letter that her family has escaped from which country?
(a) Poland.
(b) China.
(c) Romania.
(d) Russia.

5. A nurse throws a/an _____________ substance on Rifka and her mother.
(a) sunscreen.
(b) paint-like.
(c) fumigation.
(d) exfoliating.

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

7. What is Rifka's last name?
(a) Vosberg.
(b) Goscinski.
(c) Walesa.
(d) Nebrot.

8. What disease does Rifka have?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Lyme Disease.
(d) Typhus.

9. How old is Rifka at the beginning of the book?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 17.

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

11. Why can Rifka not remember her older brothers in America?
(a) They were killed in the war.
(b) No one ever talks about them.
(c) They left Russia before she was born.
(d) She lost their pictures.

12. Rifka says the guard speak ill of her family because ___________________.
(a) they are uneducated.
(b) they are thieves.
(c) they are Jewish.
(d) they are peasants.

13. What had Hannah given to Rifka before the family escaped?
(a) A scarf.
(b) A shawl.
(c) A hat.
(d) A coin purse.

14. Rifka writes her letter while on a train bound for which country?
(a) Austria.
(b) Switzerland.
(c) Germany.
(d) Poland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rifka's hometown?

2. Who eats the food that Rifka had saved for Saul?

3. In what city will Rifka live to get treatment for her disease?

4. Rifka states that life in Russia is good for Tovah because ___________________.

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

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