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

2. What is Alicia's first experience with antisemitism?
(a) When her brother Zachary is beaten by five Polish boys.
(b) When her mother was accosted in the town square.
(c) When her father's factory was burned to the ground because he was Jewish.
(d) When she was taunted at school by a group of Gentile students.

3. Why doesn't Alicia accept the invitation to go to the mountains?
(a) She fears that the Nazis will go there next.
(b) She cannot leave her mother and remaining brothers.
(c) She thinks her brother should go instead of her.
(d) She has bad allergies and will be miserable there.

4. What does Alicia often attempt to sell to make money?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Milk.
(c) Butter.
(d) Soap.

5. Over time, what happens because of the occupation?
(a) Russians forced Polish women to mate with them.
(b) All children were forced to go away to school in Russian or Germany.
(c) Russians took over businesses and people began to disappear.
(d) Russians get violent with the Poles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alicia obtain food and winter clothes?

2. After Zach joins the resistance, what happens to him?

3. How is Bunio killed?

4. While looking for her family, what does she find?

5. In case the Jurman family was separated, where did they agree to meet?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Alicia's employer cease to allow Alicia and her mother to work and stay under her roof?

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

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

4. Who help to nurse Alicia back to health after she escapes being sent on a death march?

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

8. What happened to Hebrew when The Russians took over Poland?

9. What is the second way that Alicia proves she is selfless in this section?

10. When the Germans arrived in Poland, what has happened to the Russians and Poles?

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