2. What does Mrs. Rimas learn?
(a) That her son is able to get to England.
(b) That her husband is still alive.
(c) That her husband has been shot.
(d) That her daughter is able to get to England.

3. What letter does Lina remember?
(a) One from Joana.
(b) One from her mother when she is at art camp.
(c) One from her father.
(d) One from her uncle.

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

5. 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.

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

7. How do the soldiers try to frighten the women?
(a) By screaming at them.
(b) By pointing their fingers and them and making a sign like pulling a trigger.
(c) By making them march all night around the farm.
(d) By kicking dirt on them and firing their weapons.

8. About whom does Lina think as they are eating?
(a) Kretsky.
(b) Andrius.
(c) Her father.
(d) Mr. Stalas.

9. What does Elena have Lina take Mr. Stalas?
(a) Some medicine.
(b) A beet.
(c) A note.
(d) A potato.

10. What can Lina not get over?
(a) That Andrius did not come with them.
(b) That the bald man would know about her family when she did not.
(c) That Kretsky has been so kind.
(d) That her family is there while Joana's family is comfortable in Germany.

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

12. Why do Elena and Jonas say Andrius is courageous?
(a) For getting food for them on occasion.
(b) For sneaking out of the camp sometimes.
(c) For standing up to the guards.
(d) For taking care of Mr. Stalas.

13. When are the prisoners allowed to gather wood and other materials for their camp?
(a) Never.
(b) All day.
(c) When they have breaks during the day.
(d) After working.

14. What does Lina wonder about the visitors?
(a) If they saw the signs of many people being there.
(b) If they cared about what was happening in the camp.
(c) If they know what is going on in the camp.
(d) If they came to negotiate the prisoners' release.

15. What does Lina give Andrius for Christmas?
(a) The puppy she finds.
(b) A drawing.
(c) A poem.
(d) Nothing.