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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Trudi almost tempted to do at the river?
(a) Go fishing.
(b) Go skinny dipping with the person she meets.
(c) Go swimming in her dress.
(d) Go out in a boat.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?

2. How is Oma helped?

3. What does the mother ask about the baby?

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

5. What does Klara vow to do?

(see the answer key)

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