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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 is Father Poitr getting drunk before Mass?
(a) He has always struggled with drinking.
(b) He is trying to forget all the bad memories.
(c) Father Poitr is becoming an alcoholic.
(d) The Germans are making him drink before Mass.

2. 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.

3. How does the Major get the Oberfuhrer to back off the idea of killing one-third of the village?
(a) He explains that his orders are to kill no one.
(b) He lets the Oberfuhrer know that he knows about the blood transfusions.
(c) He suggests the Oberfuhrer take revenge on Nelka and her family.
(d) He tells them they cannot leave any bodies behind, but they cannot take them with them.

4. Why is an extra place set at Magda's Christmas Eve dinner table?
(a) To symbolize all those who have died in the war.
(b) The place setting is for a wandering traveler.
(c) The extra place at the table is for Father Poitr.
(d) The setting is meant for Telek.

5. What are the revving trucks doing at the camp, Birkenau?
(a) Covering all the screaming.
(b) Powering the ovens.
(c) The exhaust is used as poison.
(d) Pumping poison into the showers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is ordered to happen to Gretel at the age of 13 when she is inspected?

3. What does Gretel think she is doing as Telek brings her back to the cabin?

4. What makes Magda happy when on the truck, even though she knows she is in trouble with the Germans?

5. What does Nelka ask Telek to do for her when she becomes aware of his strange demeanor?

Short Essay Questions

1. Nelka swore she was not a gypsy and the Oberfuhrer was relieved, why?

2. What did the Oberfuhrer demand from Nelka?

3. Why did the Brown Sister take the baby from Nelka?

4. Who was listening to Telek's plans to murder the officers and the Brown Sister?

5. What happened to change the Russian's group of partisans in March, 1944?

6. How does the Oberfuhrer degrade the priest in front of the villagers?

7. What were the German soldiers transporting when the Russian partisans stumble upon them?

8. What was going to happen to Nelka's baby, once inspected?

9. What happened to Nelka, Telek and the baby?

10. The stepmother dies. How is she killed?

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