24. Comprehension check. Choose the best alternative according to the text:

1. The group of fascists under Etfrlewanger 's command

a) had bombarded the village Khatyn on January, 12] 1941;

b) invaded the village Khatyn and made a camp there on March, 21, 1943;

c) had surrounded the village Khatyn on March, 22, 1943.

2. All the inhabitants of Khatyn —

a) Jewish, men and animals were driven to the forest, tortured and shot;

b) women, children were driven to the field and burnt alive;

c) women, old men and children were driven to the shed, closed and burnt alive.

3. Those who were trying to escape from the fiery ring were immediately shot: 149 men, and among them 76 children had been forever

a) lain in the shed;

b) remembered those who gave them chance to stay alive;

c) lain in one communal grave.

4. The only person from the adult inhabitants who had rescued was a)IosifKaminsky;

b) Sergey Selikhanov;

c) Leonid Levin.

5. And on the place of each of26 burnt houses are the bottom parts of framework made of

a) metal cross-beams;

b) concrete beams;

c) wooden constructions.

6. From the sculptural composition it conducts directly to the memorial ensem­ble which has immortalized the memory of

a) the Belarusian villages and settlements;

b) all the burnt villages of the USSR;

c) other villages of Belarus.

7. A destiny of Khatyn was prepared by the fascists to the whole territory of Belarus, to all Soviet people, in the language of aggressors it referred to simple and terrible words —

a) "a dead zone";

b) "a dead territory";

c) "fascists'property".

8. 136 villages were completely destroyed by the

a) enemies, but they were restored after the war by the relatives of the killed people and people who simply wanted to help;

b) fascists, but they were not restored even after the war, people did not want to memorize the tragic events of that horror day;

c) invaders, they were not restored even after the war, there was nobody to restore.

9. The name of... is written on it.

a) Soviet villages burnt on the territory of Russia and Belarus;

b) 296 Belarus villages burnt together with inhabitants;

c) 297 towns and villages burnt together with people.

10. In the concentration camps ...were shot, tortured and burnt

a) 2209 citizens;

b) 307,600 citizens;

c) 206,500 citizens.

11. Under the decision of the government of

a) Poland the obelisk with the lantern at the top has been erected;

b) Belarus the memorial complex of the burnt village Khatyn has been erected;

c) Germany the village was reconstructed and represents a museum of the, World War Two. *

12. During one of the celebrations of the liberation of the Republic of Bela- rusfrom German aggressors the torch has been delivered to Khatyn, the fire was} broughtfrom

a) the communal grave which is in Brest;

b) the territory where the biggest quantity of people were tortured and killed; j

c) the Eternal flame that bums at the monument of the Victory in Minsk.

13. The memorial wall was constructed in memory of prisoners of the camps of death —

a) this severe ferro-concrete construction recollects places of mass destruc- ] tion of people;

b) this construction is the only wall which has stayed4after the fire in Khatyn;

c) this severe ferro-concrete construction recollects how cruel people were burnt in crematoriums.

14. Architects Jury Gradov, Valentine Zankovich, Leonid Levin, sculptor Sergey Selikhanov, the chief engineer of the project Vasily Makarevich

a) have constructed the memorial complex in Minsk where the flame is burn­ing eternally;

b) have immortalized indestructible courage of the people of Belarus within; the World War Two in memory of the victims of fascists' invasion;

c) refused to build a memorial complex because it would remind people about; their tragedy — the tragedy of all Belarusian people.

15. The sacred flame is burning under the three birches and reminds people ..., people come here every day, day after day

a) each fourth victim of our republic;

b) each fifth victim of our republic;

c) each third victim of our republic.