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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 long did it take before Esther and her grandmother were allowed to go to the village?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) 3 weeks.

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

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

4. How many huts were near the gypsum mine?
(a) 12.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was it in Chapter 1?

2. What color did Great-grandmother Reisa always wear?

3. How tall was Esther's grandmother?

4. What river ran through the town where Esther lived?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Esther see at night when there was no storm brewing?

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

3. 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.

4. Why did Esther's family get out of bed right foot forward?

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

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

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

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

9. Describe Esther's house.

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

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