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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is said is the result of what Trudi's mother did?
(a) Trudi is almost blind.
(b) Trudi is now too fat.
(c) Trudi is smarter than all the other children.
(d) Trudi is a drawf.

2. What does Hanna's mother not show people for a long time?
(a) Her emotions.
(b) Photos of her past.
(c) Her paintings.
(d) Her home.

3. What is said Trudi's mother did to Trudi as a child?
(a) Starved her.
(b) Tried to make her learn to read too soon.
(c) Left her in a dark room all the time.
(d) Dropped her on her head.

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

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

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

7. What does Siegfried dream one day?
(a) He is imprisoned by some brigands.
(b) He is flying alongside an airplane.
(c) He is killed in a meadow.
(d) He is hung for a crime he did not commit.

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

9. How is Oma helped?
(a) By special teas.
(b) Her other leg is amputated.
(c) By special herbs and vitamin supplements.
(d) By massage and working the darkness and pain out of Oma's body.

10. What does the narrator's mother realize?
(a) Her husband is not going to return home in time for the delivery.
(b) She is not sure she wants to keep the baby.
(c) She cannot feel the baby moving.
(d) She is about to go into labor.

11. When does Hanna's mother like to swim?
(a) When no one else is around.
(b) When there is a thunderstorm.
(c) When the water is warm.
(d) When the water is very chilly.

12. What does Trudi become?
(a) A beloved teacher.
(b) A party goer.
(c) An old maid and librarian.
(d) A bitter, abused wife.

13. What is a characteristic of Hanna's father?
(a) Strict.
(b) Adventurous.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Mean.

14. How does Hanna's mother decide to help Oma?
(a) By hiring a housekeeper.
(b) By taking Oma and her sister books from the library.
(c) By taking her to a faith healer.
(d) By helping caring for Oma's sister.

15. What does Hanna's paternal grandmother have only one leg?
(a) She was in a car accident.
(b) She lost the other one to a blood clot.
(c) She was born with a shriveled leg they had to eventually amputate.
(d) She was born with only one leg and one hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the midwife seem before she returns home with her daughter?

2. In what does Trudi engage regularly?

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

4. How did people react to Hanna's mother's paintings?

5. What happens to the solider?

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