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

2. Why does Telek believe Nelka's baby will come sooner than December?
(a) Nelka is not sure of her actual due date.
(b) The baby is not healthy.
(c) Nelka is undernourished.
(d) The baby is at full term.

3. Why is the stepmother so interested in the burning barn?
(a) She wants to go in and save them but the Mechanik will not let her.
(b) She is making sure that none of the farmer's conspirators escape.
(c) The stepmother grew up around horses.
(d) She loves horses and wants to know if they are all going to die.

4. What saves the children's father from being killed by the band of partisans?
(a) The Stepmother threatens the Russian partisans with the gun.
(b) The father has a motorcycle.
(c) The father is with the woman, the Stepmother.
(d) The father is spared because he is a mechanic.

5. Why does the Russian's group attack the farm?
(a) They want the food.
(b) They are taking over the farm.
(c) The farmer is a Nazi.
(d) The wife of the farmer is helping the Nazis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret was the Stepmother keeping from the father of Hansel and Gretel?

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

3. How do the village men justify that Telek is short on the draw?

4. Why does Nelka collect all the Russian fliers that are dropped from the sky?

5. Why was the old woman, named Magda, feeding the birds?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was the supply truck's stop at Magda's to drop the two children off explained?

3. What secret is Basha and Andrzej keeping?

4. What does Kulturtrager mean?

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

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

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

8. What are the Rom?

9. What did the Russian partisans call the Stepmother?

10. How is the absence of the children's' parents explained to the Major?

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