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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Piri compare to her life in Komjaty?
(a) The city smells.
(b) The political tension.
(c) The violence.
(d) The food.

2. What did Piri tell Farenc during the visit in Chapter 5?
(a) The Germans were rounding up Jews.
(b) Her parents wanted to send her to America.
(c) She is her teacher's favorite at school.
(d) The Germans were killing Jews.

3. What does Babi beg of Piri's mother?
(a) To come stay with her and Piri.
(b) To take the children with her.
(c) To send the children to America.
(d) To split the family up.

4. What was Mother's connection to Mrs. Gerber?
(a) They taught in the same school.
(b) They worked in the same factory.
(c) Mrs. Gerber's husband was in the same battalion as Father.
(d) They knew each other from childhood.

5. Why was Piri cut off from her family at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) They had to flee without her.
(b) She fled to America.
(c) She crossed the border into Ukraine.
(d) Trains to Beregszasz stopped running.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Farenc help Piri?

2. How did Beregszasz change for Piri's family?

3. What did Mother do for the Yiddish-speaking stranger?

4. In what location did the narrator begin?

5. What was Farenc riding when Piri met him?

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