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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-7: My First Escape; My Brother Bunio, Guralis and Radishes, The First.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Alicia give up her radishes?
(a) She trades them for more clothes.
(b) She becomes sick.
(c) She knows her mother needs to eat more of the radishes than her.
(d) She decides to give it to starving children.

2. Who murders all of Alicia's family that lived in the mountains?
(a) Nazis.
(b) Poles.
(c) Ukrainians.
(d) Russians.

3. How would Alicia gather heat for her family?
(a) She would beg for wood from richer families.
(b) She would go into forbidden forest territory with Jewish boys to gather wood.
(c) Old newspapers.
(d) She would trade her clothing for wood.

4. What keeps Alicia's mother from going to the market to sell?
(a) The flu.
(b) A bout of dysentry.
(c) Malaria.
(d) Pnemonia.

5. In Alicia's town, how were the Russian soldiers?
(a) Plesant enough.
(b) Very cruel.
(c) Not extremely accomodating.
(d) They wanted to be liked by all of the Poles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the family go without food for periods of time?

2. What were the Jews proud of?

3. Why do the Germans soon arrive in Alicia's town?

4. Why doesn't Alicia accept the invitation to go to the mountains?

5. Why wasn't Alicia's section of Poland invaded sooner?

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