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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Mother's response to Uncle Sanyi?
(a) She sent him home.
(b) She found people to take care of him.
(c) She came with him to identify the body.
(d) She let him stay the night.

2. Who told Mother that Dr. Feher was dead?
(a) Iboya.
(b) Piri.
(c) Mr. Hirsch.
(d) Mrs. Gerber.

3. What was disturbing to this visitor?
(a) The rising cost of silk stockings.
(b) The declining influence of the Zionists.
(c) The injustice of German policies.
(d) The food rationing.

4. What had led Luzja to kill herself?
(a) She had been arrested.
(b) She had been caught at a Zionist meeting.
(c) She had been beaten by soldiers.
(d) She had been accused of lying.

5. Whom did Mother and Piri hear were likely in the procession somewhere?
(a) Lilli and Lajos.
(b) Manci.
(c) Shimi Stern.
(d) Babi and Rozsi.

6. What changed for Piri and Iboya when the Germans took over Hungary?
(a) They were sent to the country to live with Babi.
(b) They had more food than before.
(c) They did not have enough of any necessities.
(d) Mother dressed them as filthy beggars to protect against rape.

7. What was Mother's aim in buying a goat?
(a) To assert her defiance.
(b) To have fresh meat.
(c) To have milk for the children.
(d) To sell goat cheese.

8. What did Mother do to take care of her family?
(a) Found food.
(b) Heated water for baths.
(c) Bribed German soldiers.
(d) Arranged for her children to escape.

9. What does the family learn at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Germany is losing in Russia.
(b) Jews are being killed.
(c) America is entering the war.
(d) Germany is winning the war.

10. Why did Mother leave the city?
(a) To secure passage out of Beregszasz.
(b) To look for Father.
(c) To tell Lajos' family what happened.
(d) To buy another goat.

11. Where had Lilli and Lajos been hiding?
(a) At a university.
(b) In the streets.
(c) In a home.
(d) In the woods.

12. What special allowance did the family have to make to keep the goat?
(a) They had to bring it home at night.
(b) They had to steal food for it.
(c) They had to pay the landlord not to report them.
(d) They had to hide it.

13. What did Mother return from doing, at the beginning of Chapter 17?
(a) Visiting the synagogue.
(b) Buying matzo.
(c) Looking for Iboya.
(d) Looking for work.

14. Where did Mother go to look for Manci?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Austria.
(d) Bohemia.

15. Which country's lead does Piri say Hungary followed in instituting strict Anti-Semite laws?
(a) Poland.
(b) Netherlands.
(c) Germany.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lilli decide to give up?

2. At times, where did Iboya go instead of volunteering?

3. Who was NOT part of Piri's gang of friends?

4. What did the family know was coming?

5. How did Dr. Feher get involved with the family?

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