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12thgrade
Gatton - Between Shades of Gray Part 2:Maps and Snakes
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What did the NKVD ask Elena (Mama) to do?
Draw a map and a photo of a family
Be a servant for the commander
translate documents and speak with Lithuanians (spy)
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why does Elena say no to the job offer?
She doesn't want to have a guilty conscience.
She doesn't want to leave Lina and Jonas alone.
Her husband, Kostas, would not approve.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What type of figurative language is this?
The peasant woman slurped and snored, sunken in her bed of straw.
alliteration
hyperbole
metaphor
simile
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the agreement on the contract the NKVD wants all prisoners to sign?
Agree to pay 500 rubles and go to a concentration camp
Agree to join the collective, pay 200 rubles per person, they are criminals and sentenced to 25 years of hard labor
agree to be separated from their families and pay 1000 rubles
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is Mrs. Arvydas (Andrius's mom) doing that makes her suspicious?
She is working for the commander
She is a spy
She is marrying the commander
- 6. Multiple Choice
Why did Mrs. Arvydas doing what she is doing?
To have some luxuries like bathing and getting good food
To earn money
To save Andrius's life
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is a conflict between Lina and Andrius?
Lina assumes that Mrs. Arvydas is a traitor/spy.
Andrius is dating an Altaian woman.
Andrius burned another book of Lina's.
- 8. Multiple Choice
What person has surprisingly shown kindness who is an antagonist?
Nikolai Kretzsky
The Commander
- 9. Multiple Choice
Elena, Mama, shared a story to illustrate there is beauty in awkwardness. What did she share in that story?
Kostas (Papa) went to the university
Kostas (Papa) fell out of a tree
Kostas (Papa) bought flowers for her when he asked her on a date
- 10. Multiple Choice
Lina was asked to draw a map for the NKVD. What is her motivation for doing this?
She hopes to find information about her father and give a cigarette to Andrius.
She hopes to steal art supplies.
She hopes to get food.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is something that Lina pilfers (steals) at her job?
shoes
grain
beets
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why is Jonas ill?
He has scurvy because he is malnourished.
He has chicken pox.
He has the flu because he is working too hard cutting wood.
- 13. Multiple Choice
The bald man says, "The boy could be the angel of death for us all." (pg. 192) What is this an example of?
an allusion because it refers to the Bible
a hyperbole because he is exaggerating
an onomatopoeia
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is the name of this painting?
The distortion
The Scream
The Fear
- 15. Multiple Choice
Why is ironic that they celebrate Christmas in the bald man's shack?
He has the smallest shack/hut out of the entire group, so there is no space.
He is grouchy and hates any celebrations.
He is Jewish, so he doesn't celebrate Christmas.
- 16. Multiple Choice
How do Lithuanians honor people who aren't there to celebrate Christmas with them?
They put leave an empty chair for them.
They put a picture on the table.
They sing a song for them.
- 17. Multiple Choice
Why does the bald man have no hope?
Even if Hitler changed circumstances for Lithuanians, he would still be in danger because of Hitler's persecution of Jews.
He has been treated unfairly his whole life for being Jewish and he doesn't trust people.
- 18. Multiple Choice
What object originates from Andrius and gets passed around? They consider it a symbol of hope or fortune.
a sparkly rock
a handkerchief
a rabbit's foot
- 19. Multiple Choice
What does Lina imagine as she is forced to draw the comander?
a skeleton
Snakes coming out of his neck, a skull of hollow black eyes, and smoking a cigarette
the devil
- 20. Multiple Choice
What did Lina take from the Commander's desk?
the map
coffee
a file
- 21. Multiple Choice
What examples of figurative language are used in the following sentence? "News of the impending move burned through the camp like a spark riding gasoline."
personification
onomatopoeia
hyperbole
simile
- 22. Multiple Choice
What did Andrius give to Lina for her birthday?
A book by Dickens
paper and a pen
a necklace
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