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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alicia begin to call the beekeeper?
(a) Onkel.
(b) Dyadya.
(c) Dod.
(d) Wujciu.

2. Why was a villager cast out by his peers when he had an epileptic fit?
(a) They thought he was posessed by demons.
(b) They thought he was a pervert.
(c) Everyone is actually very supportive of him.
(d) They thought what he had was contagious.

3. While visiting friends, what happens to Alicia?
(a) She is forced into a boxcar for transport.
(b) She is forced to work the fields in her mother's place.
(c) She is sent on a death march.
(d) She is forced to go to a death camp.

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

5. How does Alicia disguise herself as a worker?
(a) She takes on peasant mannerisms.
(b) She wears peasant clothing.
(c) She is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian.
(d) She is the best worker she can be.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must Jews now wear?

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

3. At the end of Chapter 13, how are Alicia and her mother able to gain shelter from?

4. What did Jewish boys enjoy doing?

5. What is Alicia's friend Milek now involved in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do so many people decide to stay away from the beekeeper?

2. Where do Alicia and her siblings go everyday to try to make money?

3. Why does meeting Bella's family help Alicia make it through through this section of the novel?

4. In a twist of fate, how does Alicia become reconnected to her mother?

5. How is Zachary's death a way to warn Jews against mounting a resistance?

6. What was Alicia's first run-in with Antisemitism?

7. What became the fate of Moshe, Alicia's brother?

8. As a child where does Alicia grow up with her family and was it a nice place for Jewish people to live?

9. How did life change once the Russians took over control of Poland?

10. Where does Alicia find herself as this section begins and why does she watch peasants as she tries to find her way back to her home town?

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