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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream?
(a) Decides not to take an upcoming trip to the United States on an airplane.
(b) Buys a dog.
(c) Buys a gun.
(d) Hires a lawyer.

3. What happens several weeks later after Matthias stops doing what Hanna noticed?
(a) He gets a new job.
(b) He has a new man visiting.
(c) He takes her to get ice cream.
(d) He sits on the stoop again.

4. What does Trudi say about Hanna's father?
(a) That he is not native to Italy.
(b) That he almost married a woman who was closer to his age.
(c) That he is often seen at the home of a wealthy widow.
(d) That he is often seen at the home of a young secretary.

5. Who is Trudi's father?
(a) The doctor.
(b) The mayor.
(c) The constable.
(d) The local pay librarian.

6. What does Hanna notice Matthias stops doing?
(a) Going to work.
(b) Giving her candy.
(c) Sitting on the front stoop and talking to her.
(d) Inviting the man over.

7. What does Hanna's father do with Oma?
(a) Take her to stay with Oma's sister to care for the sister.
(b) Take her to a specialist.
(c) Take her home to die.
(d) Take her to her favorite beach.

8. Who does Trudi meet at the river one day?
(a) An elderly woman.
(b) A young boy.
(c) A young girl.
(d) A man.

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

10. What does Klara vow to do?
(a) Go to Scotland and find the father of her baby.
(b) Let her sister and husband raise her son since they have no children.
(c) Give her son up for adoption.
(d) Destroy her son's father's picture.

11. What does Siegfried begin doing in the evenings?
(a) Getting drunk.
(b) Walking his dogs.
(c) Courting a woman down the street.
(d) Researching dreams in the library.

12. What is different about this dream than his usual ones?
(a) It has no dream quality to it.
(b) He is not in the dream; just a narrator.
(c) He is able to change it consciously while still sleeping.
(d) It is vivid and recurs.

13. Where does the baby die?
(a) In the hospital in an incubator.
(b) In his mother's arms.
(c) On the street where it had crawled.
(d) In the bathtub.

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

15. Where does this new friend of Hanna's live next to?
(a) Next to the train station.
(b) Next door to Hanna's cousin.
(c) Across the street from the school.
(d) Hanna's mother's art studio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the mother become enraged?

2. What does Trudi say is reckless?

3. In what apartment does Klara live?

4. When does Hanna's mother like to swim?

5. What favor did the visitor ask?

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