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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 through 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the people of the ghetto encouraged to do?
(a) Join the army.
(b) Try to escape.
(c) Accept relocation.
(d) Stay inside the ghetto.

2. What holiday was Riva's mother preparing for, in her memory of her childhood?
(a) Yum Kippur.
(b) Pesach.
(c) Sukkot.
(d) Hanukkah.

3. What did some children create in the ghetto?
(a) Secret study groups.
(b) Play groups.
(c) Food scavenger groups.
(d) Trading groups.

4. What separated Riva and her cousin?
(a) An attack by Germans on Jews.
(b) A column of German soldiers headed for the front.
(c) A fire in one of the houses.
(d) A bomb run by the Soviets.

5. What question did Nancy ask her mother?
(a) Why the Nazis invaded Poland.
(b) Why her mother had trouble sleeping.
(c) Why the Nazis were allowed to kill so many people.
(d) Why they didn't have food growing up.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Riva's mother do for a living?

2. Riva's conversation with her daughter, stirred memories for Riva about what year?

3. What did the Child Welfare Department worker tell Riva?

4. What happened to the men the Germans harassed?

5. Where did Riva spend her childhood?

(see the answer key)

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