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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 the mother become enraged?
(a) The nuns refuse to help her once they know the baby is dead.
(b) Her baby had remained in utero too long and the nuns did nothing.
(c) The nuns say it is God's will.
(d) Her husband says the death is for the best.

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

3. Who had Klara and her mother befriended near the end of the war?
(a) A British soldier.
(b) An American soldier.
(c) An Australian soldier.
(d) A blinded German soldier.

4. In what does Trudi engage regularly?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Writing funny stories.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Brisk walking.

5. Who is Hanna's girlfriend?
(a) An orphan who attends Hanna's school.
(b) The daughter of the local midwife.
(c) The mayor's daughter.
(d) An American girl whose father is working as an architect in Hanna's town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klara tell her lover one day?

2. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?

3. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?

4. What does Hanna's paternal grandmother have only one leg?

5. What does the narrator's mother realize?

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