2. How wide were the beds in the barracks where the former prisoners were to stay?
(a) 70 inches.
(b) 60 inches.
(c) 90 inches.
(d) 80 inches.

3. How many weeks had the Rudomins been traveling when Esther's father spied mountains?
(a) 5-6 weeks.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 8 weeks.
(d) 3-4 weeks.

4. What didn't Esther water at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Tomatoes.
(b) Lilac bush.
(c) Spirea bush.
(d) Lettuce.

5. In Chapter 5, Esther said that her skirts had grown shorter. By how many inches did Esther's skirts become shorter?
(a) Almost an inch.
(b) Almost 2 inches.
(c) 3/4 inch.
(d) 1/2 inch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What jewelry did Great-grandmother Reisa always wear?

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

3. What color roof was on Esther's house?

4. What did Raya put on her skin to help prevent frostbite?

5. What game did Musik always used to let Esther win?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was a Siberian electrical storm like?

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

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. What jobs were the Poles assigned?

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

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

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

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

9. Why did Esther refuse to go to nursery school when she was four?

10. What did Grandmother and Mrs. Kaftal like to talk about?

(see the answer keys)

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