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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 does Michael feel he "betrays" Hanna?
(a) By lying to her.
(b) By telling his family about her.
(c) By telling his friends about her.
(d) By not telling anyone about her.

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

3. Why does Frau Schmitz laugh at the narrator in Chapter 6?
(a) He is wearing childish clothing.
(b) He doesn't know where the cellar is.
(c) He ran away.
(d) He is covered in black dust from the coal in the cellar.

4. What does Michael learn from the citizens' registration office?
(a) That Hanna has died.
(b) That Hanna has moved to France.
(c) That Hanna has moved to Hamburg.
(d) That Hanna is in jail.

5. How long will the court (including the prosecution, defense, and judge) be in the new location?
(a) Five days.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) Three weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's name, and how old does Hanna think he is?

2. What is the first thing the defense could have cast doubt upon during the trial?

3. One of the main charges in the case involved a bombing; where was the bombing? Who survived?

4. According to the daughter, how could the prisoners have saved themselves?

5. Where does Michael see Hanna again, in Part 2, Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Michael's classroom and classmates as they are presented in Chapter 13.

2. What does the narrator's mother assume he would do at the end of Chapter 1, after the narrator is diagnosed with hepatitis?

3. Describe the bicycle trip that Michael and Hanna take during Michael's Easter vacation.

4. Describe Michael's daydreams from Chapter 13.

5. How does Michael justify thinking of Hanna as a horse in Chapter 14?

6. Describe what happened the night the church was bombed, as explained in Chapter 8,

7. How does the narrator find the courage to return to Frau Schmitz's apartment?

8. In Part 2, Chapter 4, how does Michael compare the trial to being a prisoner in a death camp?

9. What does Michael do while staying home alone during the last week of vacation, in Chapter 12?

10. As described in Chapter 10, where is Michael when he has an epiphany about Hanna? What is the epiphany, and how does Michael realize it?

(see the answer keys)

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