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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Hanna's mother decide to help Oma?
(a) By helping caring for Oma's sister.
(b) By hiring a housekeeper.
(c) By taking her to a faith healer.
(d) By taking Oma and her sister books from the library.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother realize?

2. In what does Trudi engage regularly?

3. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?

4. Who is Trudi's father?

5. How is it said that Trudi's mother went insane?

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