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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Riva reading with the man she said might have been more than a friend?
(a) A love novel.
(b) Poetry.
(c) A short story.
(d) The Torah.

2. What did Riva describe as being a "one room walk in"?
(a) Their new bedroom.
(b) Their new factory.
(c) Their new apartment.
(d) The new Jewish Affairs office.

3. What period of time elapsed between Chapter 20 and Chapter 21?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 5 months.
(d) 4 months.

4. Why did the story Riva and Laibele talked about sound happy?
(a) Because they were ending happily.
(b) Because they were told by their mother.
(c) Because they were in Yiddish.
(d) Because they lived in a happy home.

5. Who called Riva out of her hiding place after the Germans failed to find her and her brothers?
(a) Yulek.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her brother.
(d) A neighbor.

6. What did Riva use to hide the trap door of their hiding place?
(a) A chair.
(b) A rug.
(c) A bed.
(d) A stack of wood.

7. What did Riva say did not get in or out of the ghetto in Chapter 21?
(a) Information.
(b) Food.
(c) Gold.
(d) Wood.

8. What was Riva's building to be used for?
(a) As a storage area.
(b) To hide escapees.
(c) To make firewood.
(d) As a hospital.

9. Who did Riva start writing letters to in Chapter 16?
(a) Members of her family.
(b) God.
(c) Dead rabbis.
(d) Herself.

10. Who was the commander of the ghetto in which Riva's family was living?
(a) Karl Eimster.
(b) Henry Bolk.
(c) Hans Biebow.
(d) Henrish Ruber.

11. What did Riva scream to Laibele?
(a) To bring back food.
(b) To come back home.
(c) To wait for her in heaven.
(d) Not to leave her.

12. Why were the workers of Riva's shop enemies of Russia, according to the Ghetto commander?
(a) They were making weapons.
(b) They were making ammunition.
(c) They were Jewish.
(d) They sewed German uniforms.

13. Who was frightened in Yulek's apartment?
(a) His grandmother.
(b) Riva.
(c) Faygele.
(d) His mother.

14. What did Riva say there was a limit to?
(a) The amount of time the Nazi can hold on to the Soviet advance.
(b) The number of time ones can be humiliated.
(c) The amount of soldier the Nazis were capable of sending to the ghetto.
(d) The amount of suffering they could take.

15. Where did Riva arrive at the end of Chapter 24?
(a) Buchenwald.
(b) Treblinka.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Sobibor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Yulek's hope after discovering he was on the list?

2. Who did the coat in Chapter 19 belong to?

3. What did Riva and others in her building receive, in Chapter 17?

4. What did Riva use to stay in touch with former neighbors and friends?

5. What did the Ghetto commander tell the workers in Riva's shop?

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