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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the priest hear first while waiting to be captured?
(a) He learns of his death sentence.
(b) He learns what the Germans do to the children they take away.
(c) The Russian army advancing toward the village.
(d) The German army firing on the neighboring village.

2. Who is witness to the blood transfusion?
(a) Hansel.
(b) Telek.
(c) The Major.
(d) Wiktor.

3. What makes Magda happy when on the truck, even though she knows she is in trouble with the Germans?
(a) The war was almost over.
(b) Her brother died a hero.
(c) Hansel and Gretel are safe inside the oven.
(d) Nelka and the baby are safe and gone.

4. What would happen to the man if the Germans know his thoughts about the heat rising from the furnaces?
(a) He would be sent to another camp.
(b) The man would be thrown in the furnace.
(c) He would lose his job.
(d) He would be sent home.

5. Why does the priest decide to get the baby for Nelka?
(a) The priest wants to show the village he is brave.
(b) It is his way of repenting for all his past sins.
(c) He believes his soul is such a little, worthless one.
(d) Father Piotr believes he will be redeemed.

6. Who does the Oberfuhrer get to take him to Magda and the children?
(a) Halina.
(b) Patryk.
(c) Wiktor.
(d) Zanna.

7. Who is Zayde?
(a) Gretel's father.
(b) Gretel's grandfather.
(c) The Mechanik.
(d) Gretel's mother.

8. What is one regret of the priest before he dies?
(a) He has behaved as a coward all his life.
(b) The priest regrets not having a real church as a parish.
(c) He never married the woman he loved.
(d) The priest never told Nelka that he loved her.

9. What would have happened to Nelka had she admitted she had gypsy blood?
(a) Magda and the children would be killed.
(b) She would have killed herself and her family.
(c) The Oberfuhrer would have killed her.
(d) She would have lost the baby.

10. What happens if a child is accepted by the Oberfuhrer during an inspection?
(a) The parent receives a red card.
(b) The child is scheduled to be sterilized.
(c) The parents receive monetary compensation.
(d) The child is taken to Germany.

11. What happens to the two men who rape Gretel?
(a) One is killed and one gets away.
(b) They leave Gretel on the log.
(c) They are both shot.
(d) They are caught by Telek.

12. As Hansel is playing with the village children, what impresses the Major about Hansel?
(a) Hansel knows all the posts of the German army.
(b) Hansel is smart.
(c) His senses of courage against the village children.
(d) He wants to play solider with the village children.

13. Why does the solider not kill Zanna after she has taken them to Magda's hut?
(a) The Oberfuhrer is nothing but a glorified athlete.
(b) He is following the Major's orders.
(c) The soldier does not want to kill any more people.
(d) There is no time to bury the body.

14. How does the priest stop Telek from committing the crime?
(a) He tells Telek to say the rosary.
(b) He asks Telek to consider the ramifications toward the villagers.
(c) The priest asks Telek to wait one night while he thinks about it.
(d) The priest tells Telek he will not be forgiven.

15. How does Telek take care of the first group of children?
(a) He burns the house down.
(b) He burns them and the house.
(c) He breaks their legs and cuts their faces
(d) He hits them with a club.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Russian, why do Russians drink heavily?

2. What does Gretel think she is doing as Telek brings her back to the cabin?

3. What happens to all the ashes of the dead, once their bodies are incinerated?

4. What does Hansel do to prove to the village children that he is not afraid?

5. What happens on March 11, 1944 to the partisans?

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