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

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

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

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

5. What reason does Rifka give the Russian soldiers for why she is on the train?
(a) She is going away to school.
(b) She is returning home from a holiday.
(c) She is going to work for a wealthy family.
(d) She is going to a relative's funeral.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rifka's last name?

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

3. Rifka recalls that Mama always liked to ________________ at home.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is life in Russia better for Tovah than it was for Rifka?

2. Why is Rifka acting as a distraction on the train?

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

4. How does Rifka try to repay Saul for the food he earns for them?

5. Where is Rifka sent for her ringworm treatment and what organization is shepherding her through the process?

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

7. What kind deed does Rifka do for a girl on the train to Warsaw which will have negative repercussions for her?

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

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

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

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