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

2. How does Hanna's father meet Hanna's mother?
(a) She was once Hanna's teacher.
(b) She shares a train compartment with him on a trip.
(c) Her best friend's brother is a good friend of Hanna's father.
(d) She came to have her teeth worked on.

3. Who taught Hanna how to swim?
(a) Her uncle.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her older brother.

4. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream?
(a) Buys a gun.
(b) Buys a dog.
(c) Decides not to take an upcoming trip to the United States on an airplane.
(d) Hires a lawyer.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Siegfried die?

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

3. What is said is the result of what Trudi's mother did?

4. Who is Matthias?

5. How does Hanna's paternal grandmother often get around in the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Hanna befriend?

2. Describe Matthias Berger.

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

4. What does Trudi call Hanna's father's actions concerning his marriage and what does Hanna think about that?

5. How is Trudi treated as a child?

6. How is Oma healed of the second blood clot?

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

8. What is Hanna's mother told by the nuns when she goes to the convent, and what is the mother's response?

9. What happens to Hanna's paternal grandmother and how does she cope?

10. Describe Klara's romance with an American soldier.

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