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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 is the outcome of Oma's illness?
(a) She dies.
(b) She recovers.
(c) She never recovers bu does not die for several years.
(d) She becomes extremely depressed and kills herself.

2. Who does the mother intend to help with her giving birth?
(a) Her sister.
(b) No one.
(c) A midwife.
(d) Nuns.

3. Where does the narrator's mother go?
(a) A free clinic.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A convent.
(d) A drugstore.

4. What does Trudi become?
(a) A party goer.
(b) A bitter, abused wife.
(c) A beloved teacher.
(d) An old maid and librarian.

5. Where does Trudi's mother die?
(a) In a distant hospital.
(b) At home locked up in the attic.
(c) In the local nursing home.
(d) In the lake where she threw herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Renate?

2. What does the narrator's mother realize?

3. How is it said that Trudi's mother went insane?

4. What do the doctors at the hospital attempt to do?

5. With whom does Klara become lovers near the end of the war?

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