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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Hanna befriend?
(a) Her cousin's good friend.
(b) A new man in her apartment building.
(c) A new girl at school.
(d) A new boy at school.

2. Where does the narrator's mother go?
(a) A drugstore.
(b) A convent.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A free clinic.

3. Where does Trudi's mother die?
(a) In the lake where she threw herself.
(b) In a distant hospital.
(c) At home locked up in the attic.
(d) In the local nursing home.

4. What caused Hanna's father to fall in love with Hanna's mother?
(a) He saw one of her paintings.
(b) Her unusual grey eyes.
(c) Her lilting laugh.
(d) Her unusual almost gold hair.

5. What does Hanna learn from Trudi?
(a) That Trudi's mother lives in the United States.
(b) That Hanna's mother is not actually who she thinks she is.
(c) That Hanna's father was previously engaged before marrying Hanna's mother.
(d) That Trudi's father is going to retire.

6. What reassurance does the mother receive?
(a) The midwife will return from the midwife's daughter's home soon.
(b) The baby is resting for the birth.
(c) Her husband will return that day.
(d) The doctor will come to her home when she is ready to give birth.

7. Where does Siegfried live?
(a) Near the center of town over the library.
(b) Near the river.
(c) Near the grain mill.
(d) Up on a mountain.

8. Who is Renate?
(a) Hanna's cousin.
(b) The midwife's daughter.
(c) Hanna's sister.
(d) The midwife.

9. Where does Siegfried die?
(a) In the meadow he had found.
(b) In the upper floor of the library.
(c) In the city park.
(d) On his way to the United States.

10. What does Hanna's father continually remind Hanna's mother not to do?
(a) Talk to the beggers on the corners.
(b) Gallop her horse so fast.
(c) Crunch ice with her teeth.
(d) Be reckless.

11. With whom does Klara live?
(a) Her sister.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her mother.
(d) She lives alone.

12. What does Trudi say is reckless?
(a) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon hair color.
(b) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon a laugh.
(c) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon a painting.
(d) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon eye color.

13. What does the mother learn about the baby?
(a) It is a boy.
(b) It is healthy.
(c) It is a breech.
(d) It has died.

14. What do the doctors ask Hanna's father?
(a) To make Hanna go to school.
(b) To take the baby from his wife.
(c) To commit Hanna's mother to the hospital for therapy.
(d) To make sure his wife does not harm their new son.

15. 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) She doesn't want to put the worm on the hook.
(d) The water is too cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Oma ask to go to the hospital?

2. How does Hanna's mother decide to help Oma?

3. Who is Matthias?

4. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?

5. Upon what does Hanna's father insist?

(see the answer keys)

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