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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 Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?
(a) Her mother knitting.
(b) A movie on television.
(c) The potato delivery.
(d) Her children playing in the yard.

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

3. In what apartment does Klara live?
(a) She lives in a house, not an apartment.
(b) The same one she lived in during the war.
(c) A brand new high rise.
(d) An apartment that is constructed just as the war is ending.

4. What does Hanna's father do with Oma?
(a) Take her home to die.
(b) Take her to a specialist.
(c) Take her to stay with Oma's sister to care for the sister.
(d) Take her to her favorite beach.

5. Where does the mother go after leaving the convent?
(a) The local midwife.
(b) Her parent's home.
(c) She wanders the streets.
(d) Her own home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the mother goes into labor?

2. What is the outcome of Oma's illness?

3. Why does the mother go there?

4. With whom does Klara live?

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

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