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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reassurance does the mother receive?
(a) The baby is resting for the birth.
(b) Her husband will return that day.
(c) The doctor will come to her home when she is ready to give birth.
(d) The midwife will return from the midwife's daughter's home soon.

2. Who does Trudi meet at the river one day?
(a) A young boy.
(b) An elderly woman.
(c) A man.
(d) A young girl.

3. What is the outcome of Oma's illness?
(a) She dies.
(b) She becomes extremely depressed and kills herself.
(c) She never recovers bu does not die for several years.
(d) She recovers.

4. What does the mother ask about the baby?
(a) If the baby is ready to come out.
(b) If it is going to be a girl.
(c) If she should be concerned.
(d) If the baby is too premature.

5. How does the midwife seem before she returns home with her daughter?
(a) Secretive.
(b) Not pregnant.
(c) Withdrawn.
(d) Boisterous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the mother go after leaving the convent?

2. What is said Trudi's mother did to Trudi as a child?

3. Why does the mother become enraged?

4. Who had Klara and her mother befriended near the end of the war?

5. What do the doctors at the hospital attempt to do?

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