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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 color did Great-grandmother Reisa always wear?
(a) White.
(b) Brown.
(c) Black.
(d) Blue.
2. When did the Russians occupy Vilna?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1940.
3. Who raced after the truck that took Esther, her parents, and grandparents to the train?
(a) Liusik.
(b) Uncle David.
(c) Grandmother Sara.
(d) Aunt Sonia.
4. Where did Esther's father believe that they were traveling through?
(a) Buryatia.
(b) Komi.
(c) Mordovia.
(d) Ukraine.
5. About how long did the Rudomins and others travel before they were allowed off the train?
(a) About 6 weeks.
(b) About 4 weeks.
(c) 5 weeks.
(d) 7 weeks.
Short Answer Questions
1. How long was Esther allowed to lay on a straw mattress when she was sick?
2. How many Russian soldiers brought Esther's father to the house with his hands tied behind his back?
3. How many people lived in the hut where the Rudomins moved after Nina became pregnant?
4. How many separate apartments were in Esther's house?
5. What foreign language was Esther to study in Rubtsovsk?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was a Siberian electrical storm like?
2. What buildings did Esther see in Rubtsovsk when she went with her grandmother?
3. Who took charge in the railroad car the Rudomins were packed into?
4. What did Esther see at night when there was no storm brewing?
5. Describe Esther's house.
6. What did Rubtsovsk look like when Esther first saw it?
7. How did the Rudomins learn that Solomon had died? Another deportee from a labor camp, a former lawyer, came to see the Rudomins. He told them that Solomon had died from pneumonia.
8. What did Esther and her grandmother buy in Rubtsovsk?
9. Why didn't Samuel come home one night after work?
10. When Esther returned from taking the matchbox filled with jewels to her grandmother, who was at the door?
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