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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eindeutschung - The Oven (pp.192-255).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Magda hide the children from the German soldiers?
(a) Inside the oven.
(b) The secret hidey-hole.
(c) Under the floorboards where Magda kept the food.
(d) In the woods.

2. Where does Hansel go when he is kicked out of the cabin?
(a) to the secret hidey-hole.
(b) To the village.
(c) Out in the woods to where Gretel had gone.
(d) He stays in the clearing around the hut.

3. Why are the mentally defective killed by the Germans?
(a) The mentally defective are a burden.
(b) The Oberfuhrer hates crazy people.
(c) The Aryan bloodline has to be perfect.
(d) They are potentially dangerous.

4. Who does the Oberfuhrer get to take him to Magda and the children?
(a) Wiktor.
(b) Zanna.
(c) Halina.
(d) Patryk.

5. What is the S.S. Oberfuhrer and Brown Sister's purpose in the village?
(a) They want to train the children to be soldiers.
(b) The children who are unhealthy and imperfect will be sent to the concentration camps.
(c) The Brown Sister is taking girls for the Sisterhood, while the Oberfuhrer is taking boys for the army.
(d) They are taking the children who are blonde and blue eyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the village men think the Major cannot rest in the evening like a normal person?

2. Why is an extra place set at Magda's Christmas Eve dinner table?

3. What does Magda do to keep Gretel from falling or leaving the cabin when she is sick with fever?

4. Why does Telek avoid maiming the face of Jasia's boy?

5. What was it that Father Poitr had to get out of the boxcar when he was enlisted?

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