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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What one opportunity is destroyed by Trudi's father?
(a) To go to boarding school.
(b) To travel to Pais.
(c) To become an actress.
(d) For love.

3. What rumor is there about Hanna's girl friend?
(a) The girl is actually the product of an Australian solider and the midwife's best friend.
(b) The girl is a genius.
(c) The young girl is gravely ill.
(d) She is not actually the daughter of who claims her.

4. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?
(a) With derision.
(b) With thoughtlessness.
(c) No one goes near her.
(d) With extreme care.

5. What reassurance does the mother receive?
(a) The doctor will come to her home when she is ready to give birth.
(b) The midwife will return from the midwife's daughter's home soon.
(c) The baby is resting for the birth.
(d) Her husband will return that day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the mother become enraged?

2. Who had Klara and her mother befriended near the end of the war?

3. How does the midwife seem before she returns home with her daughter?

4. Who is Klara Blocker?

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

(see the answer key)

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