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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ona ask the people on the train to do?
(a) Help her escape.
(b) Not give her baby to the soldiers.
(c) Help her care for her baby.
(d) Keep her baby while she tries to find some food for the child.

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

4. What does Lina know her father and Miss Grybas are on?
(a) A lorry.
(b) She knows nothing about them being on something.
(c) A secret committee.
(d) A list.

5. For what does Elena pay a woman in the hut?
(a) For bread.
(b) For some coffee.
(c) For information.
(d) For a potato and to use the stove.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Elena ignore?

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

3. Why does Elena rush to get herself and Lina clean?

4. What was Elena promised in return?

5. What does Lina's mother do with the family photos?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Lina's family is first on the train?

2. What happens to Ona?

3. What upsets Lina about being told to shower but why is she happy?

4. Why does Elena rush her children and what is the mood when they get back on the truck?

5. What does Lina keep from her mother about Kostas?

6. What happens one day when it is Lina's turn to take the buckets for the food and water?

7. What do Lina and Elena do on their first day?

8. What are Elena, Lina and Jonas forced to do?

9. What does Lina recall about a shopping trip with her mother once?

10. Why are Ona and the bald man in danger and what do the others do?

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