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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What friends did Riva promise to try to stay with if the men and women were separated at their destination?
(a) Karola and Yuma.
(b) Ira and Yuma.
(c) Karola and Rifkele.
(d) Rifkele and Saba.

2. Who did Riva say she grew closer to, in Chapter 19?
(a) Yulek.
(b) Saba.
(c) Shmulek.
(d) Mrs Avner.

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

4. How did Riva's brothers pay for the tailor in Chapter 19?
(a) With labor.
(b) With bread.
(c) With gold.
(d) With fruits.

5. What were Riva and Laibele talking about at the start of Chapter 14?
(a) How to find food.
(b) How to escape the ghetto.
(c) The war.
(d) Poems they learned as children.

6. What was Bund?
(a) A propaganda office.
(b) A Nazi movement.
(c) A Jewish relocation agency.
(d) An adult socialist movement.

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

8. Who did Yulek want to bring with him?
(a) Riva.
(b) His father.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

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

10. What was Riva's brother Motele doing in Chapter 14?
(a) Being a lookout for men tearing down a building.
(b) Studying.
(c) Building tools for the Jewish underground movement.
(d) Working in a factory.

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

12. Where did Riva start working, in Chapter 18?
(a) A pot factory.
(b) A tank repair depot.
(c) A steel mill.
(d) At a sewing factory.

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

14. What did Riva note were banned?
(a) Glasses.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Books.
(d) Teachers.

15. What did most of the families of the ghetto decide to do, according to Motele, in Chapter 22?
(a) Try to revolt.
(b) Commit suicide.
(c) Volunteer for resettlement.
(d) Try to escape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the commander of the ghetto in which Riva's family was living?

2. What area of the shop did the manager transfer Riva to?

3. What list did Yulek discover he was on, in Chapter 20?

4. What did Motele get for his work in Chapter 14?

5. Who called Riva out of her hiding place after the Germans failed to find her and her brothers?

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