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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did this change things for Piri's family?
(a) They had more help in the house.
(b) They were determined to stay together, now.
(c) They had money to flee with.
(d) Lilli was living with them full-time now.

2. Who took Piri's goat away?
(a) Neighbors.
(b) Police.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) The housing bureau.

3. What did Mother received from Lajos' parents?
(a) A telegram.
(b) A gift.
(c) A letter.
(d) A key.

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

5. Who was Mr. Baltar?
(a) A soldier.
(b) A merchant.
(c) A smuggler.
(d) A farmer.

6. What was Iboya's job?
(a) Printer's assistant.
(b) Delivery girl.
(c) Filing clerk.
(d) Cashier.

7. What did Dr. Feher give Mother?
(a) Money, and medicine for Manci.
(b) Visas.
(c) Advice to stay home.
(d) Forged travel papers.

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

9. Why was Mother upset in the beginning of chapter 12?
(a) Father had been injured.
(b) Lilli had been taken away.
(c) Lilli had been beaten.
(d) Iboya had been arrested.

10. How does Piri characterize the German invasion of Hungary?
(a) Surprising.
(b) Tragic.
(c) Inevitable.
(d) Inept.

11. Whom did Iboya go with to these clandestine gatherings?
(a) Rozsi.
(b) Aunt Lujza.
(c) Mother.
(d) Babi.

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

13. What traveled in front of the family home?
(a) A procession of wagons.
(b) Columns of soldiers.
(c) Factory equipment.
(d) Columns of tanks.

14. Why did Manci need to be picked up?
(a) She was found to be innocent.
(b) She was being released.
(c) She was going to be deported.
(d) She had whooping cough.

15. What did Mother blame herself for?
(a) Not having wanted to know that this was happening.
(b) Not having left sooner.
(c) Not having kept Lilli closer to home.
(d) Not having seen this coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Mother and Piri hear were likely in the procession somewhere?

2. Lajos was accused of ____________.

3. Where did Piri and her friends spend a lot of their time?

4. What did the family name the goat?

5. Where were Jews being taken?

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