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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Michael marry his wife?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) She promises him a happy life.
(c) She is beautiful.
(d) She looks like Hanna.

2. Where does "the daughter" live?
(a) On a street near Central Park.
(b) At a vineyard in France.
(c) In a small apartment in Berlin.
(d) Near the Capitol Building.

3. Who does Michael meet at the cemetery?
(a) Hanna.
(b) Sophie.
(c) A childhood friend.
(d) A former member of his seminar.

4. What is Hanna's sentence?
(a) Life in prison.
(b) She is acquitted of all charges.
(c) Execution.
(d) 25 years in prison.

5. Why is Michael annoyed at the end of the Part 3, Chapter 9?
(a) Hanna refuses to talk to him.
(b) He cannot speak to Hanna.
(c) He cannot find Hanna a job.
(d) Hanna calls him a "big planner."

6. How much time passes before Michael receives a note from Hanna?
(a) Ten years.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Four years.

7. In Part 2, Chapter 16, what does Michael tell himself he has to do regarding the trial?
(a) Prevent his father from dying.
(b) Prevent a miscarriage of justice.
(c) Prevent Hanna from going to jail.
(d) Prevent himself from failing law school.

8. Where does Michael spend the summer after the trial?
(a) With Sophie in France.
(b) Visiting his parents.
(c) In a mental institution.
(d) In the reading room of the university library.

9. Why does Michael say "there's no need to talk"?
(a) "Because there is no truth in words."
(b) "Because the truth of what one says is a lie."
(c) "Because the truth of what one says lies in what one does not do."
(d) "Because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."

10. in Part 2, Chapter 16, what does Michael say to be "unendurable" regarding the trial?
(a) Doing the right thing.
(b) Not speaking to Hanna.
(c) Speaking to Hanna.
(d) Doing nothing.

11. When could Michael finally carry out Hanna's instructions for her money?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Autumn.

12. What does the daughter want Michael to do with the money?
(a) Deposit the money in her account.
(b) Find a Jewish illiteracy fund, and donate it.
(c) Keep it for himself.
(d) Give it to her children.

13. What is the first thing Michael notices about Hanna when he sees her in Part 3, Chapter 8?
(a) She looks exactly the same.
(b) She has aged and gained weight.
(c) She looks like his mother.
(d) She has never looked so small.

14. In Part 3, Chapter 4, what does Michael deem "the most grotesque oversimplification of all"?
(a) Judging.
(b) Defending.
(c) Prosecuting.
(d) Becoming a doctor.

15. What time of year does Michael revisit his destination from Part 2, Chapter 14?
(a) Winter.
(b) Fall.
(c) Summer.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael discover amongst Hanna's newspaper clippings?

2. What does Michael do to stay awake, after he and his wife separate?

3. What does Michael keep in the notebook?

4. Who does Michael go to see in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 16?

5. To whom does Hanna want her money to be given?

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