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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Klara Blocker?
(a) The maid to Hanna's family.
(b) Hanna's father's sister.
(c) Hanna's best friend.
(d) The neighbor and Hanna's mother's best friend.

2. What do people in the town think of Hanna's mother?
(a) She is neglectful of her family.
(b) She is beautiful.
(c) She is gracious.
(d) She is odd.

3. Why does Oma ask to go to the hospital?
(a) She thinks she has pneumonia.
(b) She feels the same symptoms in her other leg that she did in the missing one.
(c) She wants to visit her sister who is ill.
(d) She wants to visit her best friend who is ill.

4. Why doesn't Trudi do what she almost started to do at the river?
(a) Her neighbor stops her.
(b) She doesn't want to put the worm on the hook.
(c) The water is too cold.
(d) Her father arrives and stops her.

5. With whom does Klara become lovers near the end of the war?
(a) A Scottish officer.
(b) A British soldier.
(c) An Australian soldier.
(d) An American soldier.

6. How did people react to Hanna's mother's paintings?
(a) They were repulsed.
(b) They were confused.
(c) They were critical.
(d) They were awed.

7. Upon what does Hanna's father insist?
(a) The bully that was bothering Hanna be controlled.
(b) That his new home be repainted.
(c) His wife be able to hold the baby for as long as she wants.
(d) That his wife be treated at home rather than in an asylum.

8. Who does Hanna say died as an infant?
(a) Her little brother.
(b) Her teacher's baby.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) The neighbor next door's granddaugher.

9. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?
(a) With thoughtlessness.
(b) No one goes near her.
(c) With derision.
(d) With extreme care.

10. Who does Hanna befriend?
(a) A new boy at school.
(b) A new man in her apartment building.
(c) A new girl at school.
(d) Her cousin's good friend.

11. How does Hanna's mother decide to help Oma?
(a) By hiring a housekeeper.
(b) By taking Oma and her sister books from the library.
(c) By taking her to a faith healer.
(d) By helping caring for Oma's sister.

12. What does Siegfried begin doing in the evenings?
(a) Courting a woman down the street.
(b) Walking his dogs.
(c) Getting drunk.
(d) Researching dreams in the library.

13. What does the narrator's mother realize?
(a) She is about to go into labor.
(b) Her husband is not going to return home in time for the delivery.
(c) She is not sure she wants to keep the baby.
(d) She cannot feel the baby moving.

14. What does Hanna notice Matthias stops doing?
(a) Giving her candy.
(b) Going to work.
(c) Sitting on the front stoop and talking to her.
(d) Inviting the man over.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hanna learn from Trudi?

2. What does Seigfried find in his search?

3. Who does Trudi meet at the river one day?

4. What does Trudi become?

5. Why does Hanna take holy water to Renate?

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