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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who had Klara and her mother befriended near the end of the war?
(a) An Australian soldier.
(b) A blinded German soldier.
(c) An American soldier.
(d) A British soldier.

2. Why does the mother go there?
(a) She wants to request prayers.
(b) She wants the doctor to listen to her baby's heartbeat.
(c) She wants something for her pain.
(d) She intends to give birth there.

3. Where does Siegfried die?
(a) In the upper floor of the library.
(b) In the meadow he had found.
(c) In the city park.
(d) On his way to the United States.

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

5. What does Trudi say is reckless?
(a) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon a laugh.
(b) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon hair color.
(c) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon a painting.
(d) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon eye color.

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

7. Who is Hanna's girlfriend?
(a) An orphan who attends Hanna's school.
(b) An American girl whose father is working as an architect in Hanna's town.
(c) The daughter of the local midwife.
(d) The mayor's daughter.

8. How long did Hanna's mother hear about her paintings from people?
(a) They eventually stopped talking about them.
(b) Every time she displays them, there is gossip for a while.
(c) They were still talking about them when Hanna was a middle-aged woman.
(d) They never talked about them.

9. What one opportunity is destroyed by Trudi's father?
(a) To go to boarding school.
(b) To become an actress.
(c) To travel to Pais.
(d) For love.

10. What does Hanna's mother give Hanna's father?
(a) A reason to work hard.
(b) A reason to not work so hard.
(c) Happiness and excitement.
(d) A headache.

11. What is Trudi almost tempted to do at the river?
(a) Go fishing.
(b) Go skinny dipping with the person she meets.
(c) Go out in a boat.
(d) Go swimming in her dress.

12. How does the action Siegfried take because of his dream get out of hand?
(a) He pays the lawyer a monthly retainer fee just to keep the lawyer.
(b) He ends up with seven dogs.
(c) He cancels all his future trips.
(d) He ends up with seven pistols and one rifle.

13. What does Klara vow to do?
(a) Go to Scotland and find the father of her baby.
(b) Give her son up for adoption.
(c) Destroy her son's father's picture.
(d) Let her sister and husband raise her son since they have no children.

14. When do Hanna and her mother go off to swim?
(a) Whenever the clouds roll in.
(b) Before daylight on Saturdays.
(c) Always on Sundays.
(d) When Hanna gets a holiday from school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What month of pregnancy is the narrator's mother entering?

2. What does Siegfried dream one day?

3. Why does the mother become enraged?

4. What does Hanna's mother refuse to do?

5. Who is Matthias?

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