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

2. The Major saves Gretel's life during the inspection, why?

3. What is one thing Telek knows he will never touch again after injuring the children?

4. Why does Hansel get so angry when Gretel is brought back after the assault?

5. What does Father Piotr do after he sends Hansel away from the village?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the car, painted green with an odd shape and open top?

3. What was the one thing the priest asked of Telek when Telek confesses?

4. Why did the Oberfuhrer participate in transfusions?

5. When it was stated that Gretel was mad during her inspection, what was going to be her fate at the age of 13?

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

7. What had brought the stepmother to the field?

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

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

10. What does Telek confess to the priest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Magda's brother is the village priest. Discuss how the priest is presented in the first five chapters, use evidence of his behavior to elaborate.

Essay Topic 2

The story opens with a woman insisting two children are left on the the side of a road. Discuss the Stepmother's insistence to abandon the children in the forest. In what ways did it help? In what ways did it not help? Would you have done the same if you were in that situation?

Essay Topic 3

The novel presented several characters who were considered outsiders. Discuss why Magda was an outsider to the villagers and considered a witch as explained in the first five chapters.

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