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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 doesn't Trudi do what she almost started to do at the river?
(a) Her father arrives and stops her.
(b) The water is too cold.
(c) Her neighbor stops her.
(d) She doesn't want to put the worm on the hook.

2. What do the doctors at the hospital attempt to do?
(a) Convince Oma's friend to go home.
(b) Treat Oma's sister with a new drug.
(c) Give Oma some lung treatments.
(d) Treat Oma's blood clot in her other leg.

3. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?
(a) Mumps.
(b) Scarlett fever.
(c) Polio.
(d) None.

4. How does Hanna's paternal grandmother often get around in the house?
(a) An electric scooter.
(b) A wheelchair donate to her by a medical charity group.
(c) Holding on to a chair she drags across the floor.
(d) A chair to which her husband attached wheels.

5. Who is Klara Blocker?
(a) Hanna's father's sister.
(b) Hanna's best friend.
(c) The maid to Hanna's family.
(d) The neighbor and Hanna's mother's best friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Renate?

2. What is Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?

3. What month of pregnancy is the narrator's mother entering?

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

5. What happens when the mother goes into labor?

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