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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 do the Russian guards use to search the train?
(a) Bayonets.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Flashlights.

2. Who is the only member of Rifka's family who does not get sick?
(a) Papa.
(b) Nathan.
(c) Mama.
(d) Saul.

3. Rifka has a nightmare that people are trying to steal _____________________.
(a) Her book.
(b) Her coins.
(c) Papa's pipe.
(d) Mama's candlesticks.

4. Rifka writes her letter while on a train bound for which country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Austria.
(c) Poland.
(d) Switzerland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Russian guards were searching for Nathan because ____________________.

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

3. What had Hannah given to Rifka before the family escaped?

4. What color is Rifka's hair?

5. What is the name of the town where Rifka's family is stranded in Poland?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Uncle Avrum's role in helping Rifka's family escape on the train?

2. Why is Rifka acting as a distraction on the train?

3. What is Rifka doing as the novel opens?

4. Why will the steamship company not sell a ticket to Rifka for passage to America?

5. What happens when Mama, Papa and Nathan come down with typhus, and where do Rifka and Saul go?

6. What is revealed about why Rifka and her family had to leave Russia?

7. What is Saul's advice for preventing the innkeeper's daughter from eating her food in the future?

8. How does Rifka spend her time at the hospital when she goes to see her family?

9. What humiliating things are forced upon Rifka and her family by the guards and a doctor at the Polish border?

10. What causes Rifka to scratch her chest until she bleeds in the night?

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