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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 grams of bread were the Polish slave laborers given?
(a) 400.
(b) 300.
(c) 200.
(d) 500.

2. What type of hat did Grandmother Anna wear on the train?
(a) Garbo slouch hat.
(b) Tilt straw hat.
(c) Pillbox with feathers.
(d) Turban cloche.

3. How many nights did the Jewish men pray with Samuel before the police ordered them to stop?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. How much did an egg cost in Rubtsovsk?
(a) 15 rubles.
(b) 20 rubles.
(c) 5 rubles.
(d) 10 rubles.

5. What was Esther's first meal on the train?
(a) Bread.
(b) Cabbage soup.
(c) Broth.
(d) Watery cereal.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people were packed into the railroad car?

2. How old was Boris?

3. What was the name of Esther's governess?

4. What was the name of the hill where Esther liked to go to look down on her hometown?

5. How long was Esther allowed to lay on a straw mattress when she was sick?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Esther returned from taking the matchbox filled with jewels to her grandmother, who was at the door?

3. What buildings did Esther see in Rubtsovsk when she went with her grandmother?

4. What did Esther pray when the moon came up the first night she spent at the gypsum mine?

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

6. Who were the people who lived in Siberia when the Polish people were taken there?

7. How did Easter feel when she got off the train in Chapter 3?

8. How did everyone help Esther prepare herself for school?

9. What did the prisoners learn at a meeting at the beginning of Chapter 6?

10. What did Rubtsovsk look like when Esther first saw it?

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