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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when the mother goes into labor?
(a) She is relieved that the baby is alive.
(b) She panics and sends her husband for the midwife too soon.
(c) She is sad that her pregnancy is about to be over.
(d) She goes to the convent.

2. What reassurance does the mother receive?
(a) The midwife will return from the midwife's daughter's home soon.
(b) The doctor will come to her home when she is ready to give birth.
(c) Her husband will return that day.
(d) The baby is resting for the birth.

3. What rumor is there about Hanna's girl friend?
(a) The young girl is gravely ill.
(b) The girl is actually the product of an Australian solider and the midwife's best friend.
(c) She is not actually the daughter of who claims her.
(d) The girl is a genius.

4. How is it said that Trudi's mother went insane?
(a) Her grandmother passed insanity on to Trudi's mother.
(b) Her husband hit her in the head too often.
(c) From guilt of dropping Trudi.
(d) From seeing her young son drown.

5. What is said is the result of what Trudi's mother did?
(a) Trudi is now too fat.
(b) Trudi is a drawf.
(c) Trudi is almost blind.
(d) Trudi is smarter than all the other children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Trudi's father?

2. What does the narrator's mother realize?

3. Where does the narrator's mother go?

4. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?

5. Who does the mother intend to help with her giving birth?

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