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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What had Mother failed to do when she came home at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Make money.
(b) Secure visas for America.
(c) Secure passage to the country for the children.
(d) Get the police to condemn the Anti-Semites' attack.

2. Who is Lajos?
(a) Piri's uncle.
(b) Piri's cousin.
(c) Piri's brother-in-law.
(d) Piri's sister-in-law.

3. How did Babi prepare for the holiday?
(a) Praying and reading the Bible.
(b) Visiting with neighbors.
(c) Cooking, and cleaning the house.
(d) Visiting the synagogue.

4. What part of Christmas disappointed Piri?
(a) Carolers didn't stop at their house.
(b) The town's festivities were few.
(c) She didn't get any presents.
(d) She was kept inside by a snowstorm.

5. To whom did Piri entrust a letter to her parents?
(a) Molcha.
(b) Sandor.
(c) Rozsi.
(d) Her grandmother.

6. 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 split the family up.
(d) To send the children to America.

7. How does Piri say the school routine changed in 1941?
(a) There were air attack drills all the time.
(b) The children did military drills instead of playing.
(c) Some of the buildings had been turned into barracks.
(d) Classes were smaller as children went to America or fled Europe.

8. How does Piri characterize Father's farewell?
(a) Teary.
(b) Stoic.
(c) Confusing.
(d) Hysterical.

9. Who went back with Mother after the holiday?
(a) Molcha.
(b) Rozsi.
(c) Piri.
(d) Only Father.

10. How did Piri help Farenc?
(a) She gave him a ride.
(b) She gave him food.
(c) She gave him directions.
(d) She gave him bandages.

11. Why was the narrator sent to Komjaty?
(a) To find her parents.
(b) To fight the Nazis.
(c) To flee the Nazis.
(d) To spend time with her grandmother.

12. What political alliance took place at the end of Chapter 9?
(a) Germany joined Japan against France and Britain.
(b) Vichy France joined Germany against the Free Zone.
(c) Hungary joined Germany against Russia.
(d) The U.S. joined Britain and France against Germany.

13. How did Farenc help Piri?
(a) He gave her someplace to stay.
(b) He gave her food.
(c) He found her grandparents.
(d) He gave her a ride.

14. How did Piri's family celebrate Hanukkah?
(a) They didn't observer Hanukkah.
(b) They prayed fervently for a similar miracle.
(c) They observed it in detail, for the sake of the absent men.
(d) They lit some candles then gave up.

15. What had changed about Piri's mother?
(a) She was pregnant.
(b) She looked steely and determined.
(c) She was always worried.
(d) She was sick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Farenc reveal to Piri?

2. Where did Rozsi walk with Piri?

3. What did Rozsi say in her letters home?

4. What happened when the boys chased Piri and Iboya?

5. Who is Farenc?

(see the answer keys)

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