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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 did Nina want Raya to give her in Chapter 6?

2. How many people were packed into the railroad car?

3. How many people were crammed into the schoolroom to sleep?

4. What design was on the wallpaper in Esther's room?

5. How many openings provided light and air in the railroad car the Rudomins were put into?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Makrinin and what was he like?

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

4. Describe Esther's house.

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

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

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

8. What was a Siberian electrical storm like?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss why Esther was not accepted by her classmates at first and how she gained friends.

Essay Topic 2

Esther and her mother and grandmother struggled to survive when Samuel was sent to the front. Discuss ingenuity and how the women used ingenuity to survive.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the Rudomins treated a bum who lived with them and how being treated with dignity affected Vanya and his position in the village.

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