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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. To whom does Hanna want her money to be given?
(a) Michael.
(b) The daughter who survived the church fire.
(c) A charity.
(d) Michael's family.

2. What has Michael noticed about Hanna's voice at the end of Part 3, Chapter 9?
(a) It sounds like music.
(b) It has stayed young.
(c) It is harsh and ragged.
(d) She is barely audible.

3. What does Michael feel the notebook is testament to?
(a) "My love for Hanna."
(b) "A great and fundemental confidence in the law."
(c) "The truth as I believe it."
(d) "A great and fundamental confidence in bourgeois culture."

4. In Part 2, Chapter 14, who says "executioners don't hate the people they execute, and they execute them all the same"?
(a) The conductor on the train to Alsace.
(b) Michael's father.
(c) Hanna.
(d) The driver to Schirmeck.

5. What is Michael's daughter's name?
(a) Sophie.
(b) Anna.
(c) Hanna.
(d) Julia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael feel upon reading the note?

2. Who does Michael defend in Part 2, Chapter 15?

3. Where does Michael go in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 14?

4. Where does Michael travel to in Part 3, Chapter 11?

5. What does the prison warden show Michael when he visits the prison after learning Hanna has died?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Michael's feelings about the trial become "awakened" in Chapter 3?

2. Describe what is said in the letter Michael receives from the prison warden.

3. What does Michael do during the summer after the trial, as described in Part 3, Chapter 1?

4. What happens when Michael speaks to Hanna, right before she is released, at the end of chapter 9?

5. What does Michael receive at the beginning of Chapter 6, and why does this cause him great joy?

6. How does Michael react after reading the letter in Chapter 7?

7. What does the prison warden tell Michael about Hanna and her time in prison?

8. Of Hanna's possessions, what does the daughter decide to keep, and why?

9. Describe the driver Michael hitches a ride with in Chapter 14.

10. What happens when Michael goes to talk to the judge in Chapter 16?

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