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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Frau Schmitz do for a living?
(a) Frau Schmitz is a factory worker.
(b) Frau Schmitz is a streetcar conductor.
(c) Frau Schmitz is a lawyer.
(d) Frau Schmitz is a nurse.

2. Why were the defendants transferred from Auschwitz in 1944?
(a) To replace guards who were killed by the Liberation.
(b) As punishment for a poor performance at Auschwitz.
(c) To replace guards who were killed or injured in a factory bombing.
(d) To replace guards who fell ill.

3. Where does Michael see Hanna again, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) A mental institution.
(b) A classroom.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A courtroom.

4. In Chapter 15, what does Sophie ask Michael?
(a) If he would like to have a relationship with her.
(b) If he is in love with her.
(c) If he is lying to her about where he is.
(d) If he is still ill, and if that is the reason why he comes and goes as he pleases.

5. In Chapter 16, what type of film does Michael mention he and Hanna particularly like?
(a) A movie based on a Shakespeare play.
(b) A German war film.
(c) A romantic comedy.
(d) A Hollywood Western.

6. At what age did Hanna join the army?
(a) 30.
(b) 18.
(c) 21.
(d) 25.

7. What does Michael feel upon seeing Hanna again?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Love.

8. What does the man in charge of the streetcar company tell Michael?
(a) That Hanna never picked up her last check.
(b) That Hanna told him she would not be coming back to work.
(c) That Hanna never worked for him.
(d) That Hanna had asked for a promotion.

9. What, at first, does Michael decide to be Hanna's motive?
(a) Fear of exposure as a criminal.
(b) Fear of exposure as a liar.
(c) Fear of exposure as an illiterate.
(d) Fear of exposure as a killer.

10. Which defendant is Hanna, out of how many?
(a) Hanna is the fourth of five defendants.
(b) Hanna is the second of four defendants.
(c) Hanna is the first of three defendants.
(d) Hanna is the fourth of eight defendants.

11. What does Michael shout out in his sleep, according to his brother?
(a) Quotes from a play.
(b) Cries of pain.
(c) Hanna's name.
(d) Sophie's name.

12. What does Hanna not want to acknowledge that she had previously admitted to the court?
(a) That she had no knowledge of prisoners in the church.
(b) That she had a key to the hospital.
(c) That she had no knowledge of prisoners in the hospital.
(d) That she had a key to the church.

13. What is Hanna's answer to the judge's question, "why did you not unlock the doors?"
(a) "We didn't have a key."
(b) "We didn't know it was locked."
(c) "We didn't have any alternative."
(d) "We didn't know how."

14. When is the indictment read?
(a) During the first week of the trial.
(b) During the second week of the trial.
(c) During the third week of the trial.
(d) After a month of trials.

15. How does the narrator describe being ill in the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) An enchanted interlude.
(b) A lucky break.
(c) The worst time in life.
(d) A depressing time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael wear?

2. What is unusual about Michael's father's relationship with his children?

3. Why does Frau Schmitz laugh at the narrator in Chapter 6?

4. What does Michael find in the beginning of Chapter 17?

5. What do Hanna and Michael do for his Easter vacation?

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