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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 to the solider?
(a) He is supposedly reassigned.
(b) He is killed when Klara is three months pregant.
(c) He marries Klara but is then killed.
(d) He is refused permssion to marry Klara.

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

3. What does the mother trust over the next three days?
(a) The nuns.
(b) Her husband.
(c) The fact that the midwife will return in time.
(d) The doctor's assurances.

4. Why does Hanna take holy water to Renate?
(a) To bless the midwife's home.
(b) To see if Renate will drink it.
(c) To try to heal Renate's leg.
(d) To try to heal herself.

5. How is Oma helped?
(a) By massage and working the darkness and pain out of Oma's body.
(b) Her other leg is amputated.
(c) By special teas.
(d) By special herbs and vitamin supplements.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator's mother go?

2. What does Klara vow to do?

3. What is Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?

4. How is Trudi's father towards her?

5. What happens when the mother goes into labor?

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