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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the mother goes into labor?
(a) She is sad that her pregnancy is about to be over.
(b) She is relieved that the baby is alive.
(c) She panics and sends her husband for the midwife too soon.
(d) She goes to the convent.

2. Why doesn't Trudi do what she almost started to do at the river?
(a) Her father arrives and stops her.
(b) Her neighbor stops her.
(c) The water is too cold.
(d) She doesn't want to put the worm on the hook.

3. What is Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?
(a) The potato delivery.
(b) Her children playing in the yard.
(c) Her mother knitting.
(d) A movie on television.

4. Who is Klara Blocker?
(a) Hanna's father's sister.
(b) The maid to Hanna's family.
(c) The neighbor and Hanna's mother's best friend.
(d) Hanna's best friend.

5. How does Hanna's paternal grandmother often get around in the house?
(a) Holding on to a chair she drags across the floor.
(b) A wheelchair donate to her by a medical charity group.
(c) A chair to which her husband attached wheels.
(d) An electric scooter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the mother intend to help with her giving birth?

2. What is said Trudi's mother did to Trudi as a child?

3. What reassurance does the mother receive?

4. Why does Hanna take holy water to Renate?

5. Where does the narrator's mother go?

(see the answer key)

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