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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How is it said that Trudi's mother went insane?
(a) Her grandmother passed insanity on to Trudi's mother.
(b) Her husband hit her in the head too often.
(c) From seeing her young son drown.
(d) From guilt of dropping Trudi.

3. When do Hanna and her mother go off to swim?
(a) Before daylight on Saturdays.
(b) When Hanna gets a holiday from school.
(c) Whenever the clouds roll in.
(d) Always on Sundays.

4. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream?
(a) Buys a gun.
(b) Buys a dog.
(c) Decides not to take an upcoming trip to the United States on an airplane.
(d) Hires a lawyer.

5. When does Hanna's mother like to swim?
(a) When the water is very chilly.
(b) When there is a thunderstorm.
(c) When no one else is around.
(d) When the water is warm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother learn about the baby?

2. Why does Matthias not pursue the course of training he had started?

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

4. What happens several weeks later after Matthias stops doing what Hanna noticed?

5. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?

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