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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Milgrom usually do during the day?
(a) Read books.
(b) Lie on her mattress.
(c) Play with Janina.
(d) Try to find food.

2. Who does Misha see in the Jackboot hotel?
(a) Uri.
(b) Olek.
(c) Janina.
(d) Mr. Milgrom.

3. Where does Misha tell the man who finds him he is going?
(a) To the ghetto.
(b) To the ovens.
(c) To France.
(d) To America.

4. What does Misha show Janina in the cemetery?
(a) The angel tombstone.
(b) The graves.
(c) The dead bodies.
(d) The dirt.

5. Whose body does Janina stare at when it hangs in front of her?
(a) Uncle Shepsel.
(b) Uri.
(c) Enos.
(d) Olek.

6. What does Misha tell Janina's father about her?
(a) That she hates him.
(b) That she wants to escape.
(c) That she has been smuggling food with him.
(d) That she does not want to be Jewish.

7. What does Misha give Janina so she can be held upside down and beaten on her behind?
(a) His hat.
(b) His coat.
(c) His shoes.
(d) His pants.

8. Where does Misha celebrate his first Hanukkah?
(a) Outside the ghetto.
(b) The stable.
(c) The orphanage.
(d) The Milgroms'.

9. What is Misha's new name after the war?
(a) Jerry.
(b) Jeremy.
(c) Jack.
(d) John.

10. Where does Misha sleep until the war is over?
(a) In a barber shop.
(b) In a barn.
(c) On train tracks.
(d) In a stable.

11. Who does Misha see in the street when he visits the ghetto after the war ends?
(a) Janina.
(b) Uri.
(c) Buffo.
(d) Enos.

12. What does Misha and Janina find when they go home for the last time?
(a) No one is home.
(b) There are more people in the house.
(c) Mr. Milgrom is gone.
(d) Uncle Shepsel is gone.

13. What do the boys do with the dead boy's shoes?
(a) They give them to the orphanage.
(b) They leave them on his feet.
(c) They put them in the trash.
(d) They put them on Big Henryk.

14. Where does Mr. Milgrom say happiness comes from?
(a) From material items.
(b) From other people.
(c) From within.
(d) From God.

15. How does Misha lose Janina?
(a) She runs out of the ghetto.
(b) She jumps over the wall.
(c) She runs onto a train.
(d) She moves into the crowd at the train station.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the Flops?

2. Who dies in the Milgrom house?

3. What does Misha call the flower that has a brown center and fluffy white perimeter?

4. What happens to the Milgroms' candle holder during Hanukkah?

5. What does Misha think he is made to do?

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