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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Mother prepare for Father's visit?
(a) Her clothes and Piri's.
(b) All the extra bedrooms.
(c) A great feast.
(d) She cleaned and painted the house.

5. 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.

6. When did Mother finally see Father?
(a) She found him at the train station.
(b) He found her in the market.
(c) She found him in town.
(d) He came in the night.

7. What made Piri a favorite of her teacher's?
(a) She was good at math.
(b) She spoke Ukrainian.
(c) She spoke Hungarian.
(d) She spoke Yiddish.

8. In what location did the narrator begin?
(a) Germany.
(b) Hungarian.
(c) Beregszasz.
(d) Poland.

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

10. What did Piri receive as a gift?
(a) A book.
(b) A new dress.
(c) A set of paints.
(d) A glass globe.

11. How does Piri say she was greeted in Beregszasz?
(a) Happily.
(b) Heavily.
(c) Sadly.
(d) Indifferently.

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

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

14. Where did Mother and Mrs. Gerber wait for their men?
(a) The city center.
(b) The train station.
(c) Their house.
(d) The barracks.

15. What was Mother's response to this incident?
(a) She reported it to the authorities.
(b) She worried.
(c) She decided to move to America.
(d) She was unaffected.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Piri's baby sister named?

2. Mother was going to inquire into _________________.

3. What did Rozsi say in her letters home?

4. To whom did Piri entrust a letter to her parents?

5. Who were the Hungarians fighting when Piri was on the farm?

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