Q 01/05

Under which Soviet leader are Lina and her family deported to Siberia in Between Shades of Gray?

A) Vladimir Lenin

B) Nikita Khrushchev

C) Joseph Stalin

D) Leonid Brezhnev

Answer · why

C) Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin ordered the June 1941 deportation, which swept tens of thousands of people out of Soviet-occupied lands. Survivors were only gradually r...

Q 02/05

Which Soviet secret police force bangs on Lina's door and arrests her family in Between Shades of Gray?

A) NKVD

B) KGB

C) Cheka

D) GRU

Answer · why

A) NKVD

NKVD was the name of the Soviet interior ministry and secret police in one from 1934 to 1946. The same agency ran the forced-labor camps the family is...

Q 03/05

In Between Shades of Gray, how long do Soviet officers give Lina's family to pack before deporting them?

A) Five minutes

B) Twenty minutes

C) Ninety minutes

D) Six hours

Answer · why

B) Twenty minutes

Twenty minutes is all the officers allow, though Lina's mother begs to wait until morning. Her ten-year-old son, not grasping what is happening, gets ...

Q 04/05

In what kind of railway wagon do Lina and her family spend six weeks in Between Shades of Gray?

A) A mail van

B) A coal hopper

C) A hospital carriage

D) A cattle car

Answer · why

D) A cattle car

A cattle car holds Lina's group, who spend much of the trip in darkness. A hole in the corner of the floor is the only toilet.

Q 05/05

According to the epilogue of Between Shades of Gray, which man from her years in Siberia does Lina marry?

A) Nikolai Kretzsky

B) Andrius Arvydas

C) Aleksandras Lukas

D) Dr. Samodurov

Answer · why

B) Andrius Arvydas

Andrius Arvydas is seventeen when Lina meets him on the deportation train, and the two are parted when her family is sent north. The epilogue shows th...