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

2. 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.

3. How does Rifka know Tovah?
(a) They are sisters.
(b) They are classmates.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are neighbors.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Saul buy every morning for his and Rifka's breakfast?

2. What does Rifka do for a girl on the train to Warsaw?

3. Which one of Rifka's family members is the first to get ill on the train?

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

5. What disease does Rifka have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Rifka doing as the novel opens?

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

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

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

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

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