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

2. What do the doctors at the hospital attempt to do?
(a) Convince Oma's friend to go home.
(b) Treat Oma's sister with a new drug.
(c) Give Oma some lung treatments.
(d) Treat Oma's blood clot in her other leg.

3. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Scarlett fever.
(c) Polio.
(d) None.

4. Who is Klara Blocker?
(a) The neighbor and Hanna's mother's best friend.
(b) Hanna's best friend.
(c) Hanna's father's sister.
(d) The maid to Hanna's family.

5. Who does Trudi meet at the river one day?
(a) A young boy.
(b) A young girl.
(c) An elderly woman.
(d) A man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator's mother realize?

3. How does Hanna's paternal grandmother often get around in the house?

4. How does Hanna's mother decide to help Oma?

5. Who is Hanna's girlfriend?

(see the answer key)

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