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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Ulyushka?
(a) The doctor who visits once a month.
(b) The old woman with whom Lina's family lives.
(c) The administrator of the farm.
(d) The nurse who visits once a week.

2. For what does Lina beg Kretsky?
(a) Medical attention for Jonas.
(b) Medical attention for Elena.
(c) Another pair of mittens.
(d) Some extra rations.

3. Why is Lina embarrassed?
(a) She loses her head for a minute and cries in front of the soldiers.
(b) The prisoners are given better food and many fight others for the food.
(c) The prisoners are strip searched.
(d) The prisoners have to undres in front of the soldiers.

4. What do Elena and Lina ask of the others?
(a) To cover for them in the fields so they can nurse Jonas.
(b) To try to bribe the soldiers for citrus.
(c) To try to find more fruit.
(d) To help provide extra food for Jonas.

5. What does Lina say to Andrius as they wait for Elena to return?
(a) She wishes life were different for them.
(b) She is sorry for misjuding him.
(c) She is sorry about his mother.
(d) She wishes she could understand him better.

6. How is Andrius able to stay at the camp?
(a) He prostitutes himself to the soldiers who like men.
(b) He pretends to be stupid.
(c) His mother prostitutes herself as a bribe.
(d) He does all the paperwork for the commandant.

7. Who does Lina see outside when the train stops?
(a) Kretsky.
(b) Her father.
(c) Andrius.
(d) Lukas.

8. Where has the boat crossed when the prisoners start getting excited that they are going to America?
(a) The Black Sea.
(b) They do not know where they are.
(c) The English Channel.
(d) The Arctic Circle.

9. What does Andrius bring for Jonas?
(a) A can of tomatoes.
(b) A can of orange juice.
(c) A can of pears.
(d) A bottle of castor oil.

10. What does Lina watch Mrs. Rimas do one day?
(a) Offer Jonas half of her bread ration.
(b) Cram her entire ration of bread in her mouth at once.
(c) Feed a pigeon a few crumbs of bread.
(d) Whisper to a guard.

11. What have Andrius and his mother decided to do?
(a) Kill themselves together.
(b) Escape together.
(c) Try to get a pardon.
(d) Use their privileges to gain food for the others.

12. What does a Siberian woman offer?
(a) The makings of some tea to help Jonas.
(b) A fruit that only grows in that area.
(c) A dose of vitamins.
(d) A jar of peaches.

13. What surprises Lina one night when she turns sixteen?
(a) Elena gives Lina half the family's jfewels that are left.
(b) Kretsky brings a cake for her birthday.
(c) Andrius kisses Lina.
(d) A party in her honor.

14. What does Jonas realize that evening when Elena and Lina return to the hut?
(a) They are happier.
(b) They are laughing more.
(c) Something has happened.
(d) They are not hungry.

15. What does Joana not understand about her father's actions?
(a) Why he would be packing up his medical books.
(b) Why he said Lina could not go with them.
(c) Why he was so explosive in temperament.
(d) Why he refused to let her go to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Rimas learn?

2. What habit does Alexandras Lukas have?

3. What does Lina learn about Jonas?

4. What do the soldiers tell the woman who have been digging to do?

5. What does Lina find that she decides to smuggle back to camp?

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