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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hanna's paternal grandmother have only one leg?
(a) She was born with a shriveled leg they had to eventually amputate.
(b) She was in a car accident.
(c) She lost the other one to a blood clot.
(d) She was born with only one leg and one hand.

3. What is a characteristic of Hanna's father?
(a) Adventurous.
(b) Strict.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Mean.

4. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?
(a) None.
(b) Mumps.
(c) Polio.
(d) Scarlett fever.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hanna encourage Matthias to do?

2. Who does Hanna say died as an infant?

3. What does Klara vow to do?

4. How is Oma helped?

5. Who does the mother intend to help with her giving birth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is rumored about the child of the local midwife?

2. What does the narrator's mother learn when she returns to the convent after starting labor?

3. How did Trudi's mother dropping her supposedly affect her?

4. What does Matthias do about Hanna's suggestion about the man who visits him?

5. What happens when Hanna's baby brother is born?

6. What is the problem with the narrator's mother in White Lilacs and what does she do?

7. What do many people believe is the cause of Trudi becoming an old maid?

8. Describe Hanna's father.

9. What do the townspeople say is the source of Trudi's dwarfism?

10. How does Hanna's father end up marrying a different woman than the one to whom he is first engaged?

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