Cilka's Journey Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What is the most likely reason Cilka gives up her freedom for Josie to be freed? (from Chapters 20 - 29)

Cilka has grown to see the gulag as her home.

She owes Josie a favor for saving her life.

Unlike Auschwitz she is now in a position to choose.

Josie will be in danger if released from the child-care ward.

2.

Why does the woman who just gave birth not even want to name her baby? (from Chapters 13 - 19)

She does not want to be a mother.

She hates the man who impregnated her.

She knows the baby will be given to an orphanage in two years time.

This is her third child, and she wants no part in the naming.

3.

What does the dwindling numbers of prisoners in the gulag signify to Cilka? (from Chapter 30 – Additional Information)

A small hope for an early release.

That it is time to begin plotting an escape with her ambulance crew.

The horrors of Auschwitz are returning.

A hope she will escape, perhaps with Boris.

4.

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

She practiced a religion.

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

Nothing; she volunteered.

She had an affair with a politician that went sour.

5.

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 remembrance of spring in Czechoslovakia.

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

Her ability to triumph over difficult conditions.

Her realization that many springs have passed without her noticing.

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