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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Hansel and Gretel need in order to stay with Magda?

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

3. Why did Gretel study the old woman's clothes when the two children came across the hut?

4. What animal does Gretel and Hansel get to see with Telek in their fist venture out into the forest?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to the Poles if they were caught with a bicycle?

3. What did the old Mayor's office function as in the village?

4. What are the Rom?

5. How did Magda introduce the children to the Major?

6. What did the Russian partisans call the Stepmother?

7. What did Germans use to travel from village to village?

8. What explanation is given to the Major on how the children were brought to Magda?

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

10. What secret is Basha and Andrzej keeping?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, Magda repeats the phrase, "The wheel turns." Explain what she means by this and provide support for your explanation.

Essay Topic 2

The story opens with a woman insisting two children are left on the the side of a road. Discuss the Stepmother's insistence to abandon the children in the forest. In what ways did it help? In what ways did it not help? Would you have done the same if you were in that situation?

Essay Topic 3

Magda is holding Hansel after the ordeal with Gretel's illness. She tells him, "You will never be rich, my child, you will be moving too fast to be burdened with all those things that the outsider,the gadju, want" (113). Explain and discuss what she means by this statement.

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