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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. Why do the soldiers pay no attention to the prisoners?
(a) The prisoners are so skinny as to be androgynous.
(b) The soldiers have nice-looking town girls around them.
(c) Their commandant orders them to turn their heads.
(d) The soldiers know the prisoners can't escape.

2. What is Lina doing when she sees her mother collapse?
(a) Working in the fields.
(b) Smuggling food to an elderly woman.
(c) Working on the assembly line.
(d) Stealing wood.

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

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

5. What does Andrius tell Lina when she sees him as she leaves Mr. Stalas?
(a) His family has been pardoned.
(b) He is going to escape.
(c) His father is arriving the next day.
(d) The blond soldier's name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Andrius bring for Jonas?

2. What does Elena notice about Andrius and Lina?

3. Why can't Mr. Stalas work?

4. What does Elena learn that makes her collapse?

5. What do Lina and Jonas realize about their mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the soldiers pay no attention as the prisoners strip for a shower?

2. What do the prisoners have to do immediately when they arrive at Trofimovsk?

3. What do readers learn in the Epilogue?

4. What does Lina learn from the bald man about their captivity?

5. What does Lina observe about Andrius' mother when Lina slips away after eating her potato that Jonas brought?

6. What has Hitler done in Lithuania, and what is the bald man's response to the action?

7. How do the others help Lina celebrate her sixteenth birthday?

8. What news does Mrs. Rimas recieve in a letter and how is it coded?

9. What does Andrius say about his mother and why she is doing what she does?

10. What causes Lina to appreciate the risk that some take to get food for others?

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