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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a car arrives at the village, what does that car signal to the villagers?
(a) SS soldiers are coming.
(b) They are all going to be taken away.
(c) Something bad is going to happen to someone.
(d) There is a change in leadership.

2. Who are the Rom?
(a) Russian Revolutionaries.
(b) Roman Jews.
(c) German Nazis.
(d) Romanian Gypsies.

3. How is Gretel's age disguised in the photograph?
(a) Gretel wears younger clothing.
(b) Gretel's face is blurred.
(c) Gretel blinks.
(d) Gretel's hair is in pigtails.

4. When the partisans raid the farm, what is the purpose of the hut beside the river?
(a) It is used as an ice house.
(b) It is used as a smoke house.
(c) It is a storage hut.
(d) It is a fishing hut.

5. What is Basha and her husband's secret?
(a) They know about Magda.
(b) They have been taking rations for a dead child.
(c) They are Jews.
(d) Basha is not a Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Oberfuhrer's excellent idea?

2. Why does the Russian's group target the train?

3. Why does Magda take the children to the Major in the village?

4. Why have the Mechanik and the stepmother not had sex?

5. What was the third book Gretel's father was able to save when they were forced from their home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Major escape the front lines in Russia?

2. What did the Stepmother do to win the approval of the Russian partisans when they first met?

3. What does Hansel plan to do instead of farming?

4. What do the village men decide to do in order to stop their children from being taken away?

5. What did the Russian partisans call the Stepmother?

6. What did the priest give to the children to memorize so they would fit in?

7. What did the Major think of Gretel when he first interacted with her in the village?

8. What news does Telek deliver about the Oberfuhrer and the Brown Sister?

9. Why did Magda take the children to the village?

10. What are the Rom?

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