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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. What does Hanna often do with a flower she steals here and there?
(a) Gives them to her teacher.
(b) Gives them to her mother.
(c) Places them on her brother's grave.
(d) Decorates her room.

2. Where does Hanna's mother go swimming?
(a) The river or old stone quarry.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The lake.
(d) A friend's pool.

3. How is it said that Trudi's mother went insane?
(a) Her grandmother passed insanity on to Trudi's mother.
(b) Her husband hit her in the head too often.
(c) From seeing her young son drown.
(d) From guilt of dropping Trudi.

4. How long did Hanna's mother hear about her paintings from people?
(a) They never talked 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 eventually stopped talking about them.

5. How does Siegfried die?
(a) He stumbles while drunk and falls over the banister and is hung.
(b) His dogs kill him.
(c) An airplane crash.
(d) He is killed by a punk wanting money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hanna's father do with Oma?

2. What does Hanna's father continually remind Hanna's mother not to do?

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

4. What do the doctors ask Hanna's father?

5. When does Hanna's mother like to swim?

Short Essay Questions

1. When does Hanna's mother most like to swim?

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

3. Describe Hanna's father.

4. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream and why does he do so?

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

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

7. Who is Klara Blocker?

8. How does Siegfried ultimately die?

9. What does Hanna notice about Matthias after he receives a regular visitor and what does she say to Matthias about her observation?

10. How does Hanna's mother get Hanna involved in swimming?

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