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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 herself.
(d) To try to heal Renate's leg.

2. What does Klara vow to do?
(a) Give her son up for adoption.
(b) Go to Scotland and find the father of her baby.
(c) Destroy her son's father's picture.
(d) Let her sister and husband raise her son since they have no children.

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

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

5. What does Klara tell her lover one day?
(a) She is pregnant.
(b) Her husband is coming home.
(c) She is engaged to an old family friend.
(d) She wants to go with him to Australia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reassurance does the mother receive?

3. How is Trudi's father towards her?

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

5. What does Trudi become?

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