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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. Why do the children tell Magda they like turnips?
(a) Becuase turnips are soft and mushy.
(b) Because Magda likes them.
(c) Turnips remind them of home.
(d) So that Magda will continue to feed them.

2. Who are the Rom?
(a) Roman Jews.
(b) Russian Revolutionaries.
(c) Romanian Gypsies.
(d) German Nazis.

3. What does Magda do to keep Gretel from falling or leaving the cabin when she is sick with fever?
(a) She loosely ties Gretel down to the platform.
(b) She puts Gretel in an old chicken cage.
(c) Bundles Gretel in blankets so she cannot move.
(d) Magda has Hansel pile logs up around the platform.

4. What relationship does Nelka have with Father Piotr?
(a) Nelka is his cousin.
(b) Nelka is Magda's daughter, his niece.
(c) Nelka is his grand-daughter.
(d) Nelka is the pirest's daughter.

5. Why does the Russian's group attack the farm?
(a) The farmer is a Nazi.
(b) They want the food.
(c) The wife of the farmer is helping the Nazis.
(d) They are taking over the farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Nelka?

2. When the partisans raid the farm, what is the purpose of the hut beside the river?

3. How does the Major honor Gretel during her first visit to the village?

4. According to the Russian partisan leader, what is the first job of the partisan group?

5. What is Basha and her husband's secret?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Hansel plan to do instead of farming?

2. What explanation is given to the Major on how the children were brought to Magda?

3. What did the old Mayor's office function as in the village?

4. What did the Russian partisans do to get food and clothing?

5. How did the Major escape the front lines in Russia?

6. What are the Rom?

7. What do the village men decide to do in order to stop their children from being taken away?

8. What does Kulturtrager mean?

9. How was the supply truck's stop at Magda's to drop the two children off explained?

10. What did the priest give to the children to memorize so they would fit in?

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