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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Micha identify historical sites related to the Nazis?
(a) He hires a personal tour guide.
(b) He asks a mechanic standing nearby.
(c) There are signs all over the city.
(d) The red dots on his map.

2. What is Kolesnik's role during the war?
(a) He assigned numbers and letters to the Jews.
(b) Waffen-SS man.
(c) He burned the piles of bodies.
(d) Translator.

3. What news does Mutti give about Vati in Section 6?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He is out of contact.
(c) He is in a Russian prison.
(d) He is safe.

4. What does Kolesnik confess to Micha?
(a) He nearly killed himself for his actions.
(b) His Opa committed suicide because of his actions.
(c) He helped kill Jews during the war.
(d) He and Micha's Opa killed Jews together.

5. What does Elena show Micha?
(a) The grave of her brother, who was also an SS man.
(b) Photos of his Opa during the war.
(c) Jozef's old photos.
(d) The site of the Jewish killings.

6. What feelings does Micha have for Jozef?
(a) Anger for his past.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Respect for his ability to tell the truth.
(d) Sadness for what he went through.

7. What is Tomas' reaction when Lore questions him about fathers in prison?
(a) He gets angry.
(b) He shuts down and does not say anything.
(c) He is sympathetic.
(d) He denies knowing anything.

8. What confuses Lore when they are close to Oma's?
(a) Oma is said to not live there anymore.
(b) She cannot recognize the city with so many bombed areas.
(c) Tomas tells Lore that Oma may be in prison too.
(d) No one seems to recognize Oma's name.

9. Who writes the letter to Mutti?
(a) Oma.
(b) Lore.
(c) Everyone writes a little something.
(d) Leisel.

10. How does Micha confuse Oma?
(a) Micha visits on a non-regular day.
(b) Micha takes her to a new place to talk.
(c) Micha confronts her about her history.
(d) Micha talks to her about Opa as if he is a stranger.

11. What is Micha afraid to tell the person he is staying with?
(a) That he is part Jewish.
(b) That he is in search of Opa's true background.
(c) That he is a schoolteacher.
(d) That he is looking for his Opa.

12. What are Tomas' feelings after Jochen dies?
(a) He wishes he never met the family.
(b) He wants to separate from the family.
(c) He feels he could have prevented it.
(d) He wants to seek revenge.

13. What condition is Oma's house in?
(a) Mostly intact with some bricks missing.
(b) The backyard is gone but most of the house remains.
(c) Mostly bombed out with parts of the first floor remaining.
(d) The house is literally gone and burnt down.

14. What does Lore notice when the children take a picture together?
(a) They look healthier than they feel.
(b) No one is smiling.
(c) They have darkened under the sun during their trip.
(d) They look like thin and scraggly strangers.

15. Who does Micha stay with during his time away?
(a) Elena.
(b) His Oma.
(c) Jozef.
(d) Andrej.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the conversations like between Micha and Luise?

2. Who is at the center of Micha's mental family tree?

3. Who speaks with Micha at the train station before he leaves again to search the truth about his Opa?

4. Which character gives up their own bed for the children to sleep on?

5. What does Micha like about his pictures of Opa?

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