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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens to the solider?
(a) He is refused permssion to marry Klara.
(b) He is killed when Klara is three months pregant.
(c) He is supposedly reassigned.
(d) He marries Klara but is then killed.

3. What favor did the visitor ask?
(a) For Hanna's mother to start attending church.
(b) For Hanna's mother to show her paintings in a church fair.
(c) For Hanna's mother to judge an art show.
(d) For Hanna's mother to give the students a lecture on watercolor techniques.

4. Who is Matthias?
(a) Hanna's father's dentist partner.
(b) The man Hanna befriends.
(c) The priest where Trudi goes to church.
(d) Trudi's uncle.

5. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?
(a) None.
(b) Polio.
(c) Scarlett fever.
(d) Mumps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hanna's mother go swimming?

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

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

4. What does Hanna's paternal grandmother have only one leg?

5. What is Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do many people believe is the cause of Trudi becoming an old maid?

2. Describe Klara's romance with an American soldier.

3. Who does Hanna befriend?

4. What does Matthias do about Hanna's suggestion about the man who visits him?

5. How does Hanna's mother get Hanna involved in swimming?

6. What do the townspeople say is the source of Trudi's dwarfism?

7. Describe the narrator of these stories.

8. What is wrong with Renate's leg and why and how does Hanna try to fix it?

9. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream and why does he do so?

10. What is Hanna's mother told by the nuns when she goes to the convent, and what is the mother's response?

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