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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ice Storm - Bones (pp.130-191).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Gretel's mind go after the rape?
(a) Gretel's mind goes blank.
(b) She thinks she is in a garden.
(c) She imagines she is with her Zayde.
(d) Gretel thinks of Hansel and Magda.

2. Why is it hard for Gretel to know what day it is?
(a) Gretel has lost count of the days.
(b) There is no clock or calendar.
(c) Gretel cannot tell time.
(d) Magda does not go to the village regularly.

3. What does the father, now named the Mechanik, have to do to prove his loyalty?
(a) The Mechanik must meet them in the woods.
(b) Like the woman, The Mechanik has to kill a Nazi.
(c) The Mechanikhas to steal gas.
(d) The Mechanik has to get the motorcycle.

4. What saves the children's father from being killed by the band of partisans?
(a) The Stepmother threatens the Russian partisans with the gun.
(b) The father has a motorcycle.
(c) The father is spared because he is a mechanic.
(d) The father is with the woman, the Stepmother.

5. How did the man hide his two children to escape Bialystok?
(a) The man made them wear men's clothes.
(b) The man cut their hair off.
(c) The man passed them off as mechanic's helpers.
(d) The man hid the children in truck tires.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Major not fighting on the front lines?

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

3. Why does the Russian's group target the train?

4. When the Oberfuhrer arrives, what does the Major find offensive about the SS soldier's medals?

5. There is a posting in the village about the execution of three villagers. Why were three prisoners killed?

(see the answer key)

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