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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. How fast was the train traveling that Esther and her family were on?

2. How many of the Siberians had a chipped front tooth from eating sunflower seeds?

3. What was the name of the hill where Esther liked to go to look down on her hometown?

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

5. What month was it when Esther left Vilna on the train?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Great-grandmother Reisa die?

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

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

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

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

9. What could Esther see from the top of Castle Hill?

10. What jobs were the Poles assigned?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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 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.

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