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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disease ran rampant during the Rudomins' second summer in Siberia?
(a) Typhus.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Dengue fever.
(d) Yellow fever.

2. What did Esther take to sell to get money in Chapter 14?
(a) Meat.
(b) Blouse.
(c) Bread.
(d) Skirt.

3. What day of the week did the children of Rubtsovsk have to gather to haul bricks?
(a) Saturdays.
(b) Sundays.
(c) Mondays.
(d) Wednesdays.

4. In Chapter 18, what color shoes did a man give Esther?
(a) Gray.
(b) Black.
(c) Navy blue.
(d) Brown.

5. What type of building housed the village library?
(a) Log cabin.
(b) School.
(c) Hut.
(d) Barracks.

6. Where did the woman and her daughter come from who wanted Esther to make sweaters from unused wool?
(a) Livny.
(b) Slavgorod.
(c) Kronstadt.
(d) Moscow.

7. What did Grandfather used to give the child whose flowers looked the best?
(a) 50 groshes.
(b) A movie ticket.
(c) A toy.
(d) Candy.

8. What would there be to eat sometimes when Raya spent time with Uncle Yozia and Aunt Zaya?
(a) Cheese.
(b) Smoked beef.
(c) Pastries.
(d) Smoked red fish.

9. Where did Marya Nikolayevna live before she moved to Rubtsovsk?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Korsakov.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) Moscow.

10. What did Esther earn when she knit a sweater for a little girl?
(a) A pair of boots.
(b) Beef.
(c) Milk and potatoes.
(d) A book.

11. What did it cost to see the American movie?
(a) 2 rubles.
(b) 1 ruble.
(c) 4 rubles.
(d) 3 rubles.

12. What colors were the first collar and cuff set that Esther made?
(a) Blue and pink.
(b) Lavender and gray.
(c) White and red.
(d) Yellow and green.

13. What American movie did Esther see in Chapter 10?
(a) The Best Years of Our Lives.
(b) Charlie's Aunt.
(c) For Whom the Bell Tolls.
(d) Casablanca.

14. Why didn't a mother knit a sweater for her daughter, but instead had Esther knit it?
(a) She had lost most of one hand.
(b) She didn't want her daughter to see her knitting.
(c) She didn't have time.
(d) She didn't know how to knit.

15. What instrument did Shurik play?
(a) Accordian.
(b) Guitar.
(c) Balalaika.
(d) Gusli.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color dress did the belle of the masquerade wear?

2. How long would Esther sometimes have to wait to read a book?

3. What did Esther study for the declamation contest?

4. What was Uncle Yozia's occupation?

5. What was the surname of the woman who made clothes for the wives of the factory directors?

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