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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Major think the result of the Christmas Eve hunt will be?
(a) The Major thinks the Oberfuhrer will kill Hansel.
(b) The Major thinks he will be court-marshaled and shot.
(c) The Major believes the Oberfuhrer is going to be hurt.
(d) The Major believes the Oberfuhrer will become violent if he does not get a boar.

2. Why is Nelka concerned for Telek's apparent calm when she meets him in the village drawing water?
(a) He is planning their escape from the village.
(b) Telek plans to get the baby back and run away with Nelka.
(c) He is going to exact revenge on the entire village.
(d) Telek is going to try to kill the Oberfuhrer.

3. Where does Magda hide the children from the German soldiers?
(a) Inside the oven.
(b) Under the floorboards where Magda kept the food.
(c) In the woods.
(d) The secret hidey-hole.

4. Gretel is not right in the mind after the rape. What does Gretel expect Telek to show her?
(a) The bison.
(b) The boar.
(c) The ponies.
(d) The wolves.

5. What stopps Magda from taking the children to the secret hiding place?
(a) Magda is sick with pneumonia and not thinking clearly.
(b) Hansel tells Magda that he told Halina about the place.
(c) Magda knows they have plenty of time to get to the hiding place.
(d) Gretel is sick and Magda does not want to move her.

6. Why is the stepmother in the woods when Gretel is raped?
(a) She is looking for the soldiers.
(b) She is checking up on the children.
(c) She is hunting.
(d) She is leaving the Russian partisan group.

7. What are the revving trucks doing at the camp, Birkenau?
(a) The exhaust is used as poison.
(b) Powering the ovens.
(c) Pumping poison into the showers.
(d) Covering all the screaming.

8. Why are the mentally defective killed by the Germans?
(a) The Oberfuhrer hates crazy people.
(b) They are potentially dangerous.
(c) The Aryan bloodline has to be perfect.
(d) The mentally defective are a burden.

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

10. What does Gretel think she is doing as Telek brings her back to the cabin?
(a) Eating an orange from her grandfather.
(b) Going to see the wild ponies.
(c) Going to her garden.
(d) Going to see a bison.

11. What happens on March 11, 1944 to the partisans?
(a) They are no longer partisans.
(b) They find food and canned meat attached to a parachute.
(c) The Russians defeat the Germans.
(d) They plant soup tureens to look like land mines.

12. Why does Gretel go off in the woods on her own?
(a) She wonders if the ponies have ice in their hair.
(b) Gretel is fascinated with the ice-encased world.
(c) She knows everyone else will sleep for another hour.
(d) There are hoof prints indicating the wild ponies are nearby.

13. The Major saves Gretel's life during the inspection, why?
(a) He thinks she is to beautiful to kill.
(b) She was his favorite villager.
(c) She reminds him of his sister.
(d) He wants to irritate the Oberfuhrer.

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

15. What does Gretel promise Telek before she goes into the woods alone?
(a) She promises to take Hansel.
(b) Gretel promises not to go into the woods twice.
(c) She promises to tell him if she sees the ponies.
(d) Gretel promises not to sing while alone in the woods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Menorah signify?

2. What are the Major's orders when preparing to leave the village?

3. What has the Stepmother neglected to do when she goes to check on the children?

4. Where does Gretel's mind go after the rape?

5. Who is Zayde?

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