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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 job does Michael eventually take?
(a) Another clerk position.
(b) A job as a streetcar conductor.
(c) A job working at a hospital.
(d) A research job with a legal professor.

2. What does Michael never do on the recordings?
(a) Name the title of a book.
(b) Read in English.
(c) Read in French.
(d) Make personal comments or address anyone.

3. What does Michael feel upon reading the note?
(a) Heartsickness.
(b) Joy and jubilation.
(c) Supreme anger.
(d) Profound sadness.

4. What is Hanna's sentence?
(a) 25 years in prison.
(b) Execution.
(c) Life in prison.
(d) She is acquitted of all charges.

5. Where does "the daughter" live?
(a) On a street near Central Park.
(b) At a vineyard in France.
(c) Near the Capitol Building.
(d) In a small apartment in Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novel does Michael reread at the end of Part 3, Chapter 4?

2. What does Michael learn after a phone call at the end of Part 3, Chapter 7?

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

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

5. According to Michael in Chapter 1 of Part 3, what type of love are we not responsible for?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 17, how does Michael describe Hanna at her sentencing?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 12, right after Hanna's death, what does Michael decide to do? Why?

3. How does Michael feel upon seeing Hanna in Chapter 8, and how does he describe her?

4. Describe the situation that happens at the restaurant in Chapter 15.

5. What decision does Michael struggle with at the beginning of Chapter 4, and why?

6. Describe Gertrud and the relationship she develops with Michael as described in Chapter 2.

7. Describe the prison warden, and the exchange she and Michael have when Michael comes to the prison and finds out Hanna has committed suicide.

8. In Chapter 17, what is the atmosphere in the courtroom at the beginning of the sentencing?

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

10. What does Michael do with his own writing?

(see the answer keys)

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