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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 color did Great-grandmother Reisa always wear?

2. What time were the prisoners forced to get up their first morning at the gypsum mines?

3. How long did it take before Esther and her grandmother were allowed to go to the village?

4. What month was it when the prisoners got off the train?

5. What day of the week did Esther have piano lessons?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What was a Siberian electrical storm like?

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

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

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

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

9. What techniques did Raya learn for protecting herself in the Siberian winter?

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 the town where Esther lived and what it was like to grow up there.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Esther commented that the prisoners on the train slept much of the time. Describe the train trip and what it was like to travel in the cattle car.

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