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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Manfred's father know he will do?
(a) Shoot his wife.
(b) Shoot himself.
(c) Thrown Manfred out the window.
(d) Offer to remove the noose.

2. What does Rolf finally agree to do?
(a) Go home.
(b) Go back to school.
(c) Speak to his grandfather about his father.
(d) Apologize to Hanna's best friend.

3. Who was shot in town?
(a) A young teen.
(b) A drifter.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A young couple.

4. Whose arrival in town one day affects Hannelore's life?
(a) A new teacher.
(b) A injured soldier.
(c) A doctor.
(d) A politician.

5. What precipitates Manfred's father's death?
(a) The cops are banging on the door.
(b) His wife pushes him.
(c) The chair slips.
(d) His son trips and pushes him out the window.

6. Where do Hanna and Renate go many times?
(a) The closed ferry landing.
(b) The lake.
(c) The abandoned flour mill.
(d) The old quarry.

7. What does Manfred's father keep begging of his wife?
(a) To take the children to her mother's home.
(b) To tell him if she has anymore money.
(c) To speak to him.
(d) To divorce him.

8. What does Hanna scheme for a while after Karin gives birth?
(a) Adopting the baby.
(b) Working with children in a nursery.
(c) Going with Karin to another country.
(d) Having her own baby.

9. Who is Veronika?
(a) The new school teacher.
(b) Hanna's mother's friend.
(c) Hanna's nanny.
(d) Trudi's housekeeper.

10. Why is a search organized in the town?
(a) Rolf does not come home that night.
(b) A stranger has grabbed a child.
(c) A toddler wandered off into the woods.
(d) A farmer's prize cow has wandered off.

11. Why does the pastor's sister give up her career?
(a) She is blinded in an accident.
(b) She learns she is not patient with children.
(c) To care for her brother.
(d) To get married.

12. How does Manfred's mother react as his father dies?
(a) She is silent.
(b) She screams.
(c) She tries to save him.
(d) She is not there.

13. What is found recently by the police?
(a) Some bones.
(b) A bloody knife.
(c) Hans-Jurgen.
(d) The gun which is the murder weapon.

14. Who does Immers criticize continually one day?
(a) A veterinarian.
(b) A painter who is working on Immers' home.
(c) A cat groomer Immers hired.
(d) A dog trainer Immers hired.

15. With whom does Immers live?
(a) The other folks at the home.
(b) His disabled daughter.
(c) No one.
(d) His son and daughter-in-law.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Manfred's father to become violent?

2. Who is Klara Brocker?

3. What does Rolf send Hanna to do?

4. How does Manfred's father try to manipulate his wife?

5. What does Veronika think she is doing by her actions?

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