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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sugar - December, 1943 (pp.66-129).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Magda do to keep Gretel from falling or leaving the cabin when she is sick with fever?
(a) Bundles Gretel in blankets so she cannot move.
(b) She loosely ties Gretel down to the platform.
(c) She puts Gretel in an old chicken cage.
(d) Magda has Hansel pile logs up around the platform.

2. What does the Stepmother discover during the raid on the train?
(a) She discovers a car full of ammunition and guns.
(b) She learns the Mechanic would take his children.
(c) The Stepmother learns the children are safe.
(d) She finds the bodies of many dead Jews.

3. What was the third book Gretel's father was able to save when they were forced from their home?
(a) Atlas.
(b) Fairy-tales.
(c) Torah.
(d) Mathematics.

4. Germans leave bodies where they are killed, why?
(a) There are too many bodies to bury.
(b) Germans do not believe in burring the dead.
(c) The ground is frozen and they cannot bury the bodies.
(d) As a warning to the Poles.

5. What does Magda have to teach the children?
(a) Family history.
(b) How to be Catholic.
(c) How to say the rosary.
(d) How to cook their own food.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Magda do with peroxide?

2. Why is it hard for Gretel to know what day it is?

3. What is Gretel able to read?

4. What does the father, now named the Mechanik, have to do to prove his loyalty?

5. When the Oberfuhrer arrives, what does the Major find offensive about the SS soldier's medals?

(see the answer key)

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