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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. Why is Rifka's family stranded in Poland?
(a) Broken train track.
(b) Government orders.
(c) Illness.
(d) Lack of money.

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

3. Who eats the food that Rifka had saved for Saul?
(a) The innkeeper.
(b) Rifka.
(c) Saul.
(d) The innkeeper's daughter.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does NOT describe what Rifka sees in Poland, which is just like her hometown in Russia?

2. What do the women in Poland wear on their heads?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What disease is Rifka diagnosed with in Poland and what is her prognosis?

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

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

4. What is Rifka doing as the novel opens?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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