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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hanna ignore what Rolf asks of her?
(a) She talks with his mother, following her throughout the house.
(b) She plays another joke on his mother.
(c) She invites Hans to a party.
(d) She gives all the puppies away.

2. What career does the pastor's sister give up?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Social worker.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Doctor.

3. Where does Immers live?
(a) In an apartment where Trudi's family lives.
(b) In a house above the butcher shop.
(c) In a retirement home.
(d) In an apartment where Hanna's family lives.

4. Why does Rolf confront Hanna?
(a) He does not confront Hanna.
(b) About Hanna inviting Hans who has a bad reputation.
(c) About the joke Hanna played on his mother.
(d) About what Hanna said to some classmates about Rolf.

5. Why does Manfred's father hang Manfred out the window?
(a) To force the police to leave his home.
(b) To make his wife be quiet.
(c) To force Manfred's mother to give him the grocery money.
(d) Playing with Manfred.

6. How does Hanna think she might get to town one day when she is at the river?
(a) Riding behind her older cousin's motorcycle.
(b) Riding in a friend's rowboat.
(c) Being towed behind a barge.
(d) Swimming along the bank and taking breaks now and again.

7. Who hallucinates of poison falling from the sky?
(a) Hanna's mother.
(b) Veronika.
(c) The man in the apartment above Hanna's family.
(d) Trudi's neighbor.

8. What does Hanna decide to do where she goes?
(a) Look to see where the murderer slept.
(b) Chip out a statue of her mother's face.
(c) Look up books on death.
(d) Grab a barge chain and ride down the river.

9. How does Manfred's mother respond to her husband?
(a) She slaps him.
(b) She forgives him.
(c) She calls the police again.
(d) She refuses to speak to him.

10. How is Hannelore Beier described?
(a) Shy.
(b) Surly.
(c) Talkative.
(d) Quiet and unobtrusive.

11. Who is Rolf?
(a) Hanna's uncle.
(b) Klara Brocker's son.
(c) A disinterested observer.
(d) The apartment handyman.

12. What is found recently by the police?
(a) A bloody knife.
(b) Some bones.
(c) The gun which is the murder weapon.
(d) Hans-Jurgen.

13. Who is Veronika?
(a) Hanna's mother's friend.
(b) The new school teacher.
(c) Trudi's housekeeper.
(d) Hanna's nanny.

14. What does Hanna decide to do?
(a) Live with her grandparents.
(b) Live with her aunt.
(c) Run away.
(d) Go to boarding school.

15. What do Hanna and Renate decide to do?
(a) Ask permission to skip school one day.
(b) Skip school without permission.
(c) Go swimming in a storm.
(d) Try to find Hans-Jurgen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Immers spend most of his time?

2. What does Hannelore do as a result of her brother's action?

3. Who is Hans-Jurgen Braunmeier?

4. What does Hanna think about her mother being?

5. What do people say about what Immers does after the incident?

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