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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 did Nina want Raya to give her in Chapter 6?
(a) A lacy slip.
(b) A cross.
(c) A dress.
(d) A menorah.

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

3. How many of the Siberians had a chipped front tooth from eating sunflower seeds?
(a) 60%.
(b) 80%.
(c) 70%.
(d) 90%.

4. What grade did Esther enter school in Russia?
(a) 5th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 4th.
(d) 6th.

5. What was Esther's father's occupation?
(a) Lawyer.
(b) Electrical engineer.
(c) Veterinarian.
(d) Physician.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Esther's mother give her to take to her grandmother?

2. How many separate apartments were in Esther's house?

3. In Chapter 5, Esther said that her skirts had grown shorter. By how many inches did Esther's skirts become shorter?

4. Where had the doctor in Rubtsovsk lived before coming to the village?

5. On what day of the week were people allowed to go to the village?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Makrinin and what was he like?

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

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

4. How did Great-grandmother Reisa die?

5. How did the Rudomins learn that Solomon had died? Another deportee from a labor camp, a former lawyer, came to see the Rudomins. He told them that Solomon had died from pneumonia.

6. What was a Siberian electrical storm like?

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

8. Who took charge in the railroad car the Rudomins were packed into?

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

10. What was the city of Vilna like?

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