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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 16-18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened on New Year's Eve, 1952?
(a) Manfred's father hanged himself.
(b) Manfred's father left his family and was never heard from again.
(c) Manfred's mother killed herself with drugs.
(d) Manfred's brother died in an accident.

2. Where does the mother go after leaving the convent?
(a) The local midwife.
(b) Her own home.
(c) Her parent's home.
(d) She wanders the streets.

3. Where does the baby die?
(a) In his mother's arms.
(b) On the street where it had crawled.
(c) In the hospital in an incubator.
(d) In the bathtub.

4. What happens to the solider?
(a) He is supposedly reassigned.
(b) He is refused permssion to marry Klara.
(c) He is killed when Klara is three months pregant.
(d) He marries Klara but is then killed.

5. What does the mother trust over the next three days?
(a) The nuns.
(b) The doctor's assurances.
(c) Her husband.
(d) The fact that the midwife will return in time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Klara Blocker?

2. What is it about Hanna's mother's personality that causes her death?

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

4. Who taught school in a nearby town according to Trudi?

5. How does the action Siegfried take because of his dream get out of hand?

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