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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many children did Riva's mother have?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

2. What did Riva say to Nancy to reassure her?
(a) That she would keep the light on.
(b) That the massacre could never happen again.
(c) That all the Nazis are dead.
(d) That she is too young to worry about it.

3. What did the landlady's grandson tell Riva?
(a) That the rent was going to go up.
(b) That they had to vacate the apartment.
(c) That he would protect her family from persecution.
(d) That they needed to hide.

4. Where did Riva spend her childhood?
(a) Lodz.
(b) Krakow.
(c) Warsaw.
(d) Lublin.

5. What did Riva's siblings trade for bread on the black market?
(a) A banana.
(b) A tangerine.
(c) An apple.
(d) An orange.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the young man that came to Riva's house in search of his family stay?

2. What did the men Riva overheard talk about?

3. Who was Riva's family's landlady?

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

5. In what year does Chapter 6 begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were people urged to do in Chapter 6?

2. What orders did Riva and others in the building receive, in Chapter 17?

3. Who took Riva to a doctor and what was the diagnosis, according to Chapter 8?

4. What did Motele say about the remaining families in Chapter 22?

5. What did a guard say about Riva's poem?

6. What did Riva's brothers do for her?

7. What did David Berkenwald do for Riva, in Chapter 18?

8. Why did Nacha refuse to hide when the Germans came to the door?

9. Why were the bombs "music," according to Doctor Ginzburg?

10. What happened when the police arrived?

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