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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. What month did the snows begin?
(a) October.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) November.

2. What color roof was on Esther's house?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Tan.

3. What did Raya put on her skin to help prevent frostbite?
(a) Bear fat.
(b) Petroleum jelly.
(c) Cream.
(d) Goose fat.

4. Later, how many Polish people did Esther learn were deported as "class enemies"?
(a) More than a million.
(b) 550,000.
(c) A little less than a million.
(d) 750,000.

5. What did Esther's mother give her to take to her grandmother?
(a) Food.
(b) Photo albums.
(c) Matchbox.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the prisoners given occasionally to eat as a special treat?

2. How many nights did the Jewish men pray with Samuel before the police ordered them to stop?

3. During the first night in the schoolroom, what time did the prisoners hear a knock at the window?

4. What did some girls bring the prisoners who slept in the schoolroom?

5. What type of a field did Esther and the children work in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What could Esther see from the top of Castle Hill?

2. What did Esther and her grandmother buy in Rubtsovsk?

3. Describe Esther's house.

4. Why did Esther say that history was taught in Rubtsovsk with some curious omissions?

5. How did Esther describe her Great-grandmother Reisa?

6. What was a Siberian electrical storm like?

7. Who was Makrinin and what was he like?

8. What jobs were the prisoners who worked in the mines given?

9. What was the city of Vilna like?

10. Who bought the slip that Esther and her grandmother brought to trade?

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