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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. Which of the following is NOT something Rifka does at the hospital?
(a) Eat potatoes.
(b) Watch over her mama.
(c) Learns to speak Polish.
(d) Sing to the patients.

2. What items did Rifka carry in her rucksack?
(a) Silverware.
(b) Books.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Candlesticks.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the town where Rifka's family is stranded in Poland?

2. Rifka is the only one in the family who could pass for a Russian peasant _____________________.

3. How old is Rifka at the beginning of the book?

4. "Letters from Rifka" begins in September of what year?

5. What reason does Rifka give the Russian soldiers for why she is on the train?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rifka spend her time at the hospital when she goes to see her family?

2. What humiliating things are forced upon Rifka and her family by the guards and a doctor at the Polish border?

3. What does Rifka tell Tovah about her role in the family's escape plan?

4. What is revealed about why Rifka and her family had to leave Russia?

5. What is Rifka doing as the novel opens?

6. What is missing from Rifka's rucksack when it is returned to her and how does she feel about the loss?

7. What lie does Rifka tell to the guards on the train in order to quell their suspicions?

8. Why will the steamship company not sell a ticket to Rifka for passage to America?

9. What is Uncle Avrum's role in helping Rifka's family escape on the train?

10. What happens when Mama, Papa and Nathan come down with typhus, and where do Rifka and Saul go?

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