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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael notice on Hanna's shoulder?

2. How do the other defense attorneys deal with Hanna's admissions?

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

4. What happens to the narrator after he takes a bath?

5. What illness does the narrator suffer from in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Michael "betray" Hanna, as he explains in Chapter 15?

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

3. Describe the building on Bahnhofstrasse.

4. What makes Frau (Hanna) Schmitz so angry in Chapter 8?

5. Why is the evidence actually favorable to the defendants, as explained in Chapter 7?

6. Describe how Michael becomes involved in the court and Hanna's trial, as it is told in Part 2, Chapter 2.

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

8. Describe Michael's daydreams from Chapter 13.

9. Describe Hanna's life, as she tells it to Michael in Chapter 9.

10. What does Michael do in the weeks after he and Hanna have their first fight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Hanna's actions on the night of the church bombing say about her character? Or her behavior while being questioned by the judge? Is Hanna a sympathetic character? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Hanna and Micheal's relationship is immediate and intense, yet the reader only has Michael's view of their budding romance. From a literary standpoint, why might the author construct their relationship in this way? What are the disadvantages for reader, of not knowing how Hanna truly feels about Michael? The advantages?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel Michael mentions the images of Hanna that stay with him, like a "mental projector." Give examples of some of the images that Michael mentions, and describe why those images might stay with him. Why might the author include this visual imagery, and what does it symbolize in the context of the relationship between Hanna and Michael?

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