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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trees did Esther see along the river as the train left Vilna?

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

3. What nationality did Esther see in her mother's features?

4. How many rooms did the hut have where the Rudomins moved in Chapter 9?

5. What type of hat did Grandmother Anna wear on the train?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the city of Vilna like?

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

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

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

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

8. How did Great-grandmother Reisa die?

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

10. Who was Makrinin and what was he like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the relationship between Esther and her mother.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss traditions that the Rudomin family had to prevent bad luck and promote good luck and whether the Rudomins seriously believed that good or bad luck could be fostered by something like getting out of bed properly.

Essay Topic 3

The baracholka provided hope. Discuss the baracholka and why it provided hope to the Rudomins and to the native peoples who attended it.

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