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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 does the narrator's mother realize?
(a) She cannot feel the baby moving.
(b) She is not sure she wants to keep the baby.
(c) She is about to go into labor.
(d) Her husband is not going to return home in time for the delivery.

2. What does Trudi become?
(a) An old maid and librarian.
(b) A bitter, abused wife.
(c) A beloved teacher.
(d) A party goer.

3. What one opportunity is destroyed by Trudi's father?
(a) To travel to Pais.
(b) To become an actress.
(c) For love.
(d) To go to boarding school.

4. How is Oma helped?
(a) By special herbs and vitamin supplements.
(b) By special teas.
(c) By massage and working the darkness and pain out of Oma's body.
(d) Her other leg is amputated.

5. Why does the mother go there?
(a) She wants the doctor to listen to her baby's heartbeat.
(b) She intends to give birth there.
(c) She wants to request prayers.
(d) She wants something for her pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the mother become enraged?

2. What does Hanna's father do with Oma?

3. What is said Trudi's mother did to Trudi as a child?

4. How does the midwife seem before she returns home with her daughter?

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

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