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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 nationality did Esther see in her mother's features?

2. What author did Esther mention reading in Chapter 6 as an example of how terrible capitalism was?

3. What year was it in Chapter 1?

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

5. What bird did Esther see as she and her grandmother began their walk to the village?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the city of Vilna like?

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

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

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

7. How was food purchased when the Rudomins were on the train?

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

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

10. 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.

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

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

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 8, Esther said that trouble became their constant companion. Discuss why Esther thought that trouble was her family's constant companion.

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