Cilka's Journey Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

The personification “The wind whips [the spring flowers] around and still their stalks bounce back” (236) represents what for Cilka? (from Chapters 20 - 29)

Her ability to triumph over difficult conditions.

Spring has nearly arrived, and she will be able to spend more outside time.

Her realization that many springs have passed without her noticing.

Her remembrance of spring in Czechoslovakia.

2.

How is the “past never as far away as they’d like” (321)? (from Chapter 30 – Additional Information)

The past is something to be forgotten.

What Cilka and Gita were forced to endure will remain forefront in their minds.

Cilka and Gita constantly worry for their safety because of past events.

The past is filled with unmemorable events.

3.

What does Cilka learn when she asks about Yelena? (from Chapters 13 - 19)

She is having an affair with the commander of the prison camp.

Her family was killed in the revolution.

She is dating the maternity ward doctor, Petre.

She is not what she seems.

4.

What did Yelena do to end up with this Siberian assignment? (from Chapters 5 - 12)

Nothing; she volunteered.

She had an affair with a politician that went sour.

She practiced a religion.

She out-studied her male colleagues, and they conspired against her.

5.

What is the event that genuinely scares Cilka? (from Chapters 5 - 12)

Her hut-mates' disappearances.

Boris taking her to the men’s part of camp.

Watching patients die in the hospital.

The loss of friendship when Josie refuses to speak with her.

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