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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rifka feel about her brother, Saul?
(a) She does not like him.
(b) She finds him amusing.
(c) She loves him.
(d) She detests him.

2. What does Rifka note is missing when her rucksack is returned to her?
(a) Her book.
(b) Her hair ribbons.
(c) The candlesticks.
(d) Her good dress.

3. Rifka states that life in Russia is good for Tovah because ___________________.
(a) she went to a special school.
(b) she is not Jewish.
(c) she got disability payments.
(d) her family had money.

4. How does Rifka know Tovah?
(a) They are classmates.
(b) They are sisters.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) They are neighbors.

5. A nurse throws a/an _____________ substance on Rifka and her mother.
(a) exfoliating.
(b) fumigation.
(c) sunscreen.
(d) paint-like.

6. Who is Rifka's grandmother?
(a) Bubbe Yulia.
(b) Bubbe Ruth.
(c) Bubbe Mila.
(d) Bubbe Natalia.

7. What is Rifka's prognosis according to the medical student?
(a) She will die.
(b) She will have bad scars.
(c) She will be better in a few days.
(d) She will be crippled for life.

8. Who is the only one in Rifka's family who can speak Russian without a Yiddish accent?
(a) Mama.
(b) Rifka.
(c) Papa.
(d) Nathan.

9. Which of the following does NOT describe what Rifka sees in Poland, which is just like her hometown in Russia?
(a) Crooked cottages.
(b) Bony fences.
(c) Patchy roads.
(d) Flower boxes on windowsills.

10. Which of the following is NOT one of Rifka's older brothers living in America?
(a) Reuben.
(b) Isaac.
(c) Asher.
(d) Pieter.

11. Where does Rifka's family head once everyone is well and out of the hospital?
(a) Warsaw.
(b) Zurich.
(c) Krakow.
(d) Berlin.

12. Rifka carried a book written by which Russian poet?
(a) Pushkin.
(b) Akhmatova.
(c) Pasternak.
(d) Tolstoy.

13. What organization provides aid to Rifka's family in Warsaw?
(a) The Polish Embassy.
(b) Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
(c) The Red Cross.
(d) Doctors Without Borders.

14. Entering _____________ is Rifka's first time in another country.
(a) Poland.
(b) China.
(c) Germany.
(d) Mongolia.

15. Why can Rifka not remember her older brothers in America?
(a) They left Russia before she was born.
(b) She lost their pictures.
(c) No one ever talks about them.
(d) They were killed in the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Rifka close her first letter to Tovah?

2. What kind of fruit does Rifka buy from the vendor at the steamship dock?

3. What do the women in Poland wear on their heads?

4. Rifka is the only one in the family who could pass for a Russian peasant _____________________.

5. What disease does Rifka have?

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