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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator's mother realize?
(a) She cannot feel the baby moving.
(b) She is not sure she wants to keep the baby.
(c) She is about to go into labor.
(d) Her husband is not going to return home in time for the delivery.

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

4. How does the midwife seem before she returns home with her daughter?
(a) Not pregnant.
(b) Boisterous.
(c) Secretive.
(d) Withdrawn.

5. With whom does Klara become lovers near the end of the war?
(a) A British soldier.
(b) A Scottish officer.
(c) An Australian soldier.
(d) An American soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Trudi almost tempted to do at the river?

2. What does Klara tell her lover one day?

3. What reassurance does the mother receive?

4. What does Trudi become?

5. In what does Trudi engage regularly?

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