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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man with the silver pipe invite children to do?
(a) Come to his house for tea.
(b) Come with him to candy mountain.
(c) Learn to read.
(d) Play with his kids.

2. What does Misha give Janina so she can be held upside down and beaten on her behind?
(a) His hat.
(b) His shoes.
(c) His coat.
(d) His pants.

3. Who do Misha and Janina meet once when they steal food from someone's house?
(a) A little girl who lives there.
(b) A man who lives there.
(c) A woman who lives there.
(d) A little boy who lives there.

4. What does the woman who cares for Misha tell him to do when the war ends?
(a) Run.
(b) Stay.
(c) Go to the ovens.
(d) Hide in the alleyways.

5. What object of Misha's does Janina throw over the wall?
(a) His watch.
(b) His shoes.
(c) His necklace.
(d) His socks.

6. Why does Misha remove their armband when he and Janina are outside the ghetto?
(a) So they will not be recognized as Jews.
(b) So they can move around easier.
(c) Because he does not like the colors.
(d) Because he does not like how it looks on his arm.

7. Where does Misha sleep until the war is over?
(a) In a stable.
(b) On train tracks.
(c) In a barber shop.
(d) In a barn.

8. Why is Kuba held upside down and beaten on the behind?
(a) Because he wants to die.
(b) For fun.
(c) Because he needs to be punished.
(d) To get rid of his lice.

9. Who picks up the dead body from the street?
(a) Doctor Korczak.
(b) Misha.
(c) Uri.
(d) The men who walk around with the wagon.

10. Who are the Flops?
(a) Older men.
(b) Jackboots.
(c) Children.
(d) Jews.

11. What do the boys do with the dead boy's shoes?
(a) They put them in the trash.
(b) They leave them on his feet.
(c) They give them to the orphanage.
(d) They put them on Big Henryk.

12. What does Misha give Janina to cheer her up?
(a) An egg and a pickle.
(b) A doll.
(c) A buttercream candy.
(d) A cake.

13. What was wrong with the wall when Janina and Misha returned for the last time?
(a) There was no hole in it.
(b) The wall had been taken down.
(c) The hole was too small to fit through.
(d) The wall was heavily guarded.

14. Which boy does Misha and his friends find dead in the street?
(a) Uri.
(b) Enos.
(c) Jon.
(d) Ferdi.

15. What is Misha told that keeps him from going to the ovens?
(a) There is a new law that children cannot roam on their own.
(b) That everyone he knows is dead.
(c) There is a new law that all children must work on the farms.
(d) That the ovens do not exist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the man who finds Misha after he leaves the ghetto?

2. What is Misha's new name after the war?

3. Where does Misha take Janina on the one night they do not smuggle?

4. Where does Misha celebrate his first Hanukkah?

5. What does Buffo smell like?

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