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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Milgrom usually do during the day?
(a) Read books.
(b) Play with Janina.
(c) Lie on her mattress.
(d) Try to find food.

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

4. Where does Misha take Janina on the one night they do not smuggle?
(a) To the Jackboot hotel.
(b) To the merry-go-round.
(c) To the orphanage.
(d) To the bakery.

5. How does Misha lose Janina?
(a) She runs onto a train.
(b) She jumps over the wall.
(c) She runs out of the ghetto.
(d) She moves into the crowd at the train station.

6. What do the Jackboots do to stop the smugglers?
(a) Send out spies to watch every Jew.
(b) Send out patrols and dogs in the ghetto.
(c) Shoot people at random.
(d) Set up watch towers.

7. What happens to the ghetto after the war?
(a) Jackboots are living there.
(b) Jews are still living there.
(c) It remains in tact.
(d) It is mostly rubble.

8. What had Mrs. Milgrom told Misha about their relationship?
(a) That she was not like a sister.
(b) That she was like a sister.
(c) That she was not his mother.
(d) That she was his mother.

9. How do Janina and Misha get food without smuggling for a few nights?
(a) Uri gets it to them through the hole.
(b) The boys share their food with them.
(c) The man with the silver pipe share his.
(d) Someone tosses food over the wall.

10. Why are there children singing in the courtyard?
(a) They are singing for the Jackboots.
(b) They are singing for fun.
(c) They are singing for food.
(d) They are singing for Hanukkah.

11. Who follows Misha one night when he goes smuggling for food?
(a) Janina.
(b) Uri.
(c) Mr. Milgrom.
(d) Uncle Shepsel.

12. What kind of cow does Janina show Misha?
(a) A picture of a cow.
(b) A stuffed cow.
(c) A real, live cow.
(d) She does not show Misha a cow.

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

14. How many new people come to live with the Milgroms?
(a) 7.
(b) 2.
(c) 12.
(d) 0.

15. Who does Misha say he feeds?
(a) No one but the Milgroms.
(b) Whoever asks him to feed them.
(c) No one but himself.
(d) Whoever he wants to feed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who else does Misha steal food for?

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

3. What does Misha call the flower that has a brown center and fluffy white perimeter?

4. What warning does Uri give Misha outside the ghetto?

5. What do the Jackboots threaten to do if they catch people smuggling?

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