The Reader Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 149 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Reader Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 149 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hanna serve?

2. What is the main piece of evidence in the trial?

3. What is the cause of the first fight between Hanna and Michael?

4. What is the first thing the narrator notices when he returns to Frau Schmitz's apartment in Chapter 6?

5. To whom does Michael try to talk about his feelings regarding his epiphany about Hanna with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happened the night the church was bombed, as explained in Chapter 8,

2. What does Michael do in the weeks after he and Hanna have their first fight?

3. How does the narrator find the courage to return to Frau Schmitz's apartment?

4. Why does Michael decide to talk to his father in Chapter 12?

5. How does Michael justify thinking of Hanna as a horse in Chapter 14?

6. Describe the five defendants' roles, and their involvement in the crimes that brought them to the trial, as described in Part 2, Chapter 5.

7. Describe the only time Michael sees Hanna by chance, in Chapter 16.

8. Describe Hanna's lawyer from Part 2, Chapter 3.

9. Describe how Michael becomes involved in the court and Hanna's trial, as it is told in Part 2, Chapter 2.

10. Why is the narrator unable to take his eyes off of Frau Schmitz?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Part 1, Chapter 5 Michael says that he recognizes a life pattern in himself, and that "often enough in my life I have done things I had not decided to do." What does Michael mean by this? Describe and give examples of the disconnect Michael feels between making a decision and completing an action. How does this act as a foreshadowing of Michael's later behavior?

Essay Topic 2

During the trials it is discovered that Hanna had "favorite" prisoners, young women who were too weak to work, whom she had read to her much like Michael. What can the reader draw from this discovery? How does Michael feel about this? How could this revelation change the way in which the reader sees Hanna?

Essay Topic 3

Michael's family makes brief appearances in the novel. At the end of Part 1, Chapter 7, Michael notes that he feels as though he is saying his "final goodbyes" to them, although no one is going anywhere. Why might Michael have said that? What does his family symbolize? What, perhaps, were the author's intentions of having a young, teenaged Michael so emotionally estranged from his family?

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