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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lina explain to the gray-haired man?
(a) That the symbols will give the next group hope.
(b) That the drawings will be a way to communicate with her father.
(c) That the ring will buy them food so she wants to keep it clean.
(d) That the song is in protest.

3. How often does the train stop?
(a) Once a week.
(b) Never.
(c) Once a day.
(d) Once every other day.

4. What conversation with her father does Lina recall?
(a) About peasants.
(b) About the best methods of mass food production.
(c) About Stalin's agricultural policies.
(d) About the people in this area of Russia.

5. How many people does Lina count in the train car?
(a) 21.
(b) 46.
(c) 75.
(d) 15.

6. What does Lina's father tell her to continue doing?
(a) Writing.
(b) Being so grown up.
(c) Praying.
(d) Drawing.

7. What do the train occupants do when it rains?
(a) Try to clean themselves.
(b) Sing loudly to drone out the noise of the rain hitting the roof.
(c) Huddle in one corner where there are no drips.
(d) Hold cups out to catch the water.

8. What does Lina recall about doing once with her mother?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Sewing.
(d) Drawing.

9. What does Lina's father give Lina?
(a) Dried beef and chocolate.
(b) Dried fruit and several books.
(c) Ham and warm clothes.
(d) Nothing.

10. What do the women do to relieve stress?
(a) Try to use humor.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Talk kindly with the guards.
(d) Cry.

11. What does Lina tell her mother about people in the other cars?
(a) They look like they are eating better.
(b) They look sick.
(c) They look like they've given up hope.
(d) Nothing as she can't see the others.

12. What is a kolkhoz?
(a) A collective farm.
(b) A collection of tools.
(c) A foundry.
(d) A community of buildings.

13. What made Lina angry about her conversation with her father?
(a) That the people in this area of Russia are considered inferior.
(b) The way Stalin took the land away from individuals.
(c) That the best methods of food production were ignored.
(d) That peasants are considered expendable.

14. What does Jonas do without complaint?
(a) Carries a large suitcase.
(b) Hides in the cupboard.
(c) Puts on three layers of clothing.
(d) Carris the dog.

15. What does the bald man ask Jonas to do?
(a) Tell him a story.
(b) Shoot him.
(c) Smother him.
(d) Read to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lina realize the priest is doing?

2. What does Ona do when they are loaded back on the trucks?

3. What happens one day when Lina is sent off the train?

4. What are they forced to do?

5. Who is Ona?

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