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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why were Benjamin and Leah running the night before when he was injured?
(a) They were having a race to the border.
(b) There were soldiers everywhere.
(c) They were chasing some Jewish children.
(d) They wanted the exercise.

2. Why did the widow need more supplies?
(a) The soldiers kept taking her food.
(b) The food kept rotting.
(c) Leah ate a lot of food.
(d) There were now five children to look after.

3. Where were Benjamin and Leah hiding?
(a) In an abandoned car
(b) In a cave by the stream that they used as a donkey shed
(c) In the swamp
(d) Up in a tree

4. What does the man say about the cub's mother?
(a) He said it was too bad the cub was now an orphan.
(b) He said the cub's mother wandered off.
(c) He tells Jo not to feel bad. He just did his job.
(d) He said the cub's mother would come back soon.

5. How were the townspeople called together?
(a) They fired a canon.
(b) Hubert would go around beating the drum.
(c) A siren would wail.
(d) They would ring the town bell.

6. What did the widow ask if Jo could do?
(a) Check on her horse
(b) Leave the room
(c) Carry her purchases home for her weekly
(d) Wash her car

7. How did the widow and Benjamin plan to get what they needed?
(a) They were going to plant a large garden.
(b) They wanted Jo to beg the soldiers for food.
(c) They were going to ask Jo to steal for them.
(d) They were going to sell the pigs to Grandpere.

8. How did the soldiers gain acceptance in the village?
(a) They helped the farmers.
(b) They had a lot of money and hired people who needed jobs.
(c) They made Hubert happy.
(d) They helped kill a bear.

9. What relationship does the man have to the widow?
(a) He is her helper.
(b) He is her son.
(c) He is her adopted son.
(d) He is her son-in-law.

10. What did Jo do when he saw what Rouf was barking at?
(a) He ran for help.
(b) He started chasing after the animals.
(c) He jumped into the water.
(d) He grabbed his gun.

11. What did Jo do after the man walked off?
(a) He sat down to think for a while.
(b) He went back to the sheep.
(c) He followed him.
(d) He went back home.

12. What did Laurent find on the class field trip?
(a) An eagle
(b) Leah's shoe
(c) A plant the teacher couldn't identify
(d) A bear print.

13. What was a sign of spring in the village?
(a) The soldiers moving out
(b) The sound of sheep bells as they moved from one field to the next
(c) School was out.
(d) The sound of the organ

14. How did Maman and Grandpere respond when Jo asked them why the Germans wanted to kill the Jews?
(a) They told him to ask questions like that.
(b) They refused to talk or look at him until he changed the subject.
(c) They said Hitler was jealous of the Jews since they were God's Chosen People.
(d) They didn't know, and they said the Germans made up their rules as they went along.

15. Who arrived in the village while Jo was gone?
(a) Anya
(b) German soldiers
(c) His father
(d) Hitler

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had sent the family a letter?

2. What were the Germans in the village like?

3. Why were the Germans setting all the rules?

4. How does the widow want the boy to treat her in the village?

5. What was the man hiding in the barn?

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