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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. What is Rifka's prognosis according to the medical student?
(a) She will be crippled for life.
(b) She will die.
(c) She will be better in a few days.
(d) She will have bad scars.

2. How does Rifka close her first letter to Tovah?
(a) Until we meet again.
(b) Shalom to you.
(c) I miss you.
(d) Love.

3. Rifka is the only one in the family who could pass for a Russian peasant _____________________.
(a) because of her blonde hair.
(b) because of her clothing.
(c) because of her sturdy legs.
(d) because of her ruddy complexion.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rifka's last name?

2. Rifka has a nightmare that people are trying to steal _____________________.

3. Who had made the undergarments Rifka wears?

4. Where does Rifka's family head once everyone is well and out of the hospital?

5. The Russian guards were searching for Nathan because ____________________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Rifka's personality traits and which is probably her strongest trait?

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

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

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

6. What is Saul's advice for preventing the innkeeper's daughter from eating her food in the future?

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

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

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

10. What is Rifka doing as the novel opens?

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