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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kretsky tell Elena?
(a) Russia is about to be invaded.
(b) They need an artist.
(c) The Germans are getting closer.
(d) They are going to start killing the women.

2. How does Lina's family get to their new destination?
(a) On a train the whole way.
(b) Walking.
(c) First by truck and then by train.
(d) All the way on unheated military trucks.

3. Why can't Mr. Stalas work?
(a) He has a broken leg.
(b) He is ill.
(c) He has a broken arm.
(d) He has bad back.

4. What habit does Alexandras Lukas have?
(a) Clearing his throat.
(b) Winding his watch.
(c) Saying "alright."
(d) Running his hand through his hair.

5. What do Lina and Jonas realize about their mother?
(a) She is secretly seeing the soldiers to beg for more supplies.
(b) She has withdrawn.
(c) She is giving the two of them most of her food rations.
(d) She has given up hope.

6. What does Elena say in her letters?
(a) The soldiers beat them regularly.
(b) Code to express the conditions.
(c) Nothing; they are not allowed to write.
(d) The conditions are barbaric.

7. What does Elena notice about Andrius and Lina?
(a) They are nicer to each other than they had been.
(b) They seem to hate each other.
(c) They avoid each other.
(d) They are getting close.

8. About what does the commander renege?
(a) A promise of an increase in food allotments.
(b) A promise of potatoes for the drawing.
(c) A promise of less hours of work per day.
(d) A promise of freedom after the New Year.

9. Why are the prisoners given more food than usual?
(a) There is a new, more compassionate commandant.
(b) So they can work harder at their destination.
(c) There is more available in this region.
(d) They are not given more food.

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

11. What are the prisoners told they have to do?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Build their own shelters.
(c) Sign papers or they'll be shot.
(d) Work in the weapons factory.

12. What is good about the time around Christmas?
(a) The administrator allows them to go into the village.
(b) The snow has abated somewhat.
(c) It is so cold, the guards don't venture out much.
(d) The people are feeling a little optimistic.

13. What does Lina find that she decides to smuggle back to camp?
(a) A dead wolverine.
(b) A dead owl.
(c) A live rabbit in a trap.
(d) A dead rabbit.

14. Why is one man killed at the farm?
(a) He hit a guard.
(b) He refused to work.
(c) He wrote a letter.
(d) He tried to run away.

15. Who is Janina?
(a) A little girl who travels with them.
(b) A doctor who checks the passengers.
(c) A priest.
(d) A nurse who checks the passengers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has the boat crossed when the prisoners start getting excited that they are going to America?

2. How do the soldiers try to frighten the women?

3. What does everyone bring to the Christmas Eve celebration?

4. What does Lina wonder about the visitors?

5. What does Andrius bring for Jonas?

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