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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 12 through 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what does Miss Grybas explain as the train continues south?
(a) The Ural Mountains.
(b) The way the various alliances are lined up in WWII.
(c) The topography that the Germans will have to cross.
(d) The topography that the Russians will have to cross.

2. What is Lina thinking about at the opening of the novel?
(a) The way her father overprotected her.
(b) Her fifteenth birthday.
(c) The time leading up to being taken prisoner.
(d) The time her brother drowned.

3. What does Andrius do and Lina and Jonas go along?
(a) To ask where they are going.
(b) To find some food.
(c) To search for his father.
(d) To try to escape.

4. What does Lina realize about her parents' plans?
(a) To escape the country.
(b) That they had made no plans.
(c) To appeal to Stalin for clemency.
(d) To hide among Christian friends.

5. What is obvious about Andrius when he gets back to their railroad car?
(a) He is dispirited.
(b) He has talked to his father.
(c) He has some sort of plan.
(d) He has been brutally beaten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ona finally agree to do?

2. Who does the bald man say is worse than Stalin?

3. What are the daily rations like?

4. Who does Elena ignore?

5. What does a grouchy woman in the group that Elena's family is in say?

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