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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Renate?
(a) Hanna's sister.
(b) The midwife.
(c) The midwife's daughter.
(d) Hanna's cousin.

2. What does Hanna's paternal grandmother have only one leg?
(a) She was born with a shriveled leg they had to eventually amputate.
(b) She lost the other one to a blood clot.
(c) She was in a car accident.
(d) She was born with only one leg and one hand.

3. What does the mother learn about the baby?
(a) It is healthy.
(b) It has died.
(c) It is a boy.
(d) It is a breech.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Hanna's girlfriend?

3. Who does Trudi meet at the river one day?

4. What happens to the solider?

5. Where does the mother go after leaving the convent?

(see the answer key)

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