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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Farenc say about what Piri tells him?
(a) It wouldn't change anything.
(b) He was leaving soon.
(c) His family is gone.
(d) It was a good idea.

2. Where was the woman from?
(a) Russia.
(b) Finland.
(c) Slovakia.
(d) Bohemia.

3. Where were Piri and Iboya when they were nearly attacked?
(a) In school.
(b) In the yard.
(c) By the synagogue.
(d) In the town center.

4. What did Piri anticipate when this visitor came to the farm?
(a) Taking care of her sister.
(b) Helping her parents move to Komjaty.
(c) Leaving for America.
(d) Returning to Beregszasz herself.

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

6. What made Piri ill?
(a) Lack of food.
(b) Tuberculosis.
(c) Leaving Komjaty.
(d) Missing Farenc.

7. Where was Mrs. Gerber's daughter?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Prague.

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

9. Where did Father expect his battalion to go?
(a) Paris.
(b) Normandy.
(c) Netherlands.
(d) Russia.

10. What did Farenc reveal to Piri?
(a) Her parents had escaped.
(b) Komjaty was about to be shelled.
(c) The road to Beregszasz was closed.
(d) Komjaty was not going to be attacked.

11. What was Piri's mood about school and her future?
(a) Pessimistic.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Reserved.
(d) Skeptical.

12. Who is Farenc?
(a) A Hungarian policeman.
(b) A Ukrainian soldier.
(c) A German soldier.
(d) Piri's brother.

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

14. Who comes to the farm a few weeks after Piri's new sister is born?
(a) Rozsi.
(b) Father.
(c) Mother.
(d) Farenc.

15. What did Piri expect her future to look like?
(a) She thought she would join the military.
(b) She thought she would have to marry an officer.
(c) She thought she would have to flee.
(d) She thought she would work in a factory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Piri say that made her mother express concern?

2. Who was Shimi Stern?

3. When did Mother finally see Father?

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

5. How was Piri soothed after she saw frightening things?

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