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

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

3. What did some girls bring the prisoners who slept in the schoolroom?
(a) Watermelon.
(b) Bread.
(c) Cheese.
(d) Peaches.

4. How many years after Esther arrived in Rubtsovsk, did it become a town of some industrial importance?
(a) 30.
(b) 50.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

5. What was the name of the hill where Esther liked to go to look down on her hometown?
(a) Towering Hill.
(b) Tournament Hill.
(c) Climbing Hill.
(d) Castle Hill.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Samuel give to Esther and Grandmother Anna to trade in Rubtsovsk?

2. How many truckloads of people were brought to the gypsum mine?

3. What color dress did Grandmother Anna wear when she and Esther went to the village?

4. When did Hitler's armies march on Poland?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Why didn't Samuel come home one night after work?

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

5. Why were the prisoners called for a meeting in Chapter 5?

6. Describe Esther's house.

7. What was the city of Vilna like?

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

9. What news did the Rudomins learn from a soldier?

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

(see the answer keys)

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