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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 is the only member of Rifka's family who does not get sick?
(a) Mama.
(b) Papa.
(c) Saul.
(d) Nathan.

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

3. Which one of Rifka's family members is the first to get ill on the train?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Rifka.
(c) Mama.
(d) Saul.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Rifka says the guard speak ill of her family because ___________________.

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

4. Rifka recalls a time when Russian soldiers beat Papa because he would not give up his ____________.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Rifka doing as the novel opens?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is revealed about Rifka and her family, and why they had to leave Russia?

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