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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 does Hanna take holy water to Renate?
(a) To try to heal Renate's leg.
(b) To try to heal herself.
(c) To bless the midwife's home.
(d) To see if Renate will drink it.

2. What is Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?
(a) Her children playing in the yard.
(b) Her mother knitting.
(c) A movie on television.
(d) The potato delivery.

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

4. Where does the narrator's mother go?
(a) A free clinic.
(b) A convent.
(c) A drugstore.
(d) A hospital.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reassurance does the mother receive?

2. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?

3. What is said is the result of what Trudi's mother did?

4. What is Trudi almost tempted to do at the river?

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

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