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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who taught Hanna how to swim?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her older brother.

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

3. With whom does Klara live?
(a) She lives alone.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her sister.

4. How does Siegfried die?
(a) An airplane crash.
(b) He is killed by a punk wanting money.
(c) He stumbles while drunk and falls over the banister and is hung.
(d) His dogs kill him.

5. What does Hanna's father do in response to the doctor's request?
(a) Walks Hanna to school everyday.
(b) Moves his family.
(c) Gently pulls the baby out of his wife's arms.
(d) Wraps his arms around his wife.

6. Where does Hanna's mother go swimming?
(a) The lake.
(b) A friend's pool.
(c) The river or old stone quarry.
(d) The ocean.

7. Upon what does Hanna's father insist?
(a) His wife be able to hold the baby for as long as she wants.
(b) The bully that was bothering Hanna be controlled.
(c) That his new home be repainted.
(d) That his wife be treated at home rather than in an asylum.

8. What is the outcome of Oma's illness?
(a) She dies.
(b) She becomes extremely depressed and kills herself.
(c) She recovers.
(d) She never recovers bu does not die for several years.

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

10. What does Hanna notice Matthias stops doing?
(a) Going to work.
(b) Giving her candy.
(c) Sitting on the front stoop and talking to her.
(d) Inviting the man over.

11. Who does Trudi meet at the river one day?
(a) A man.
(b) A young girl.
(c) A young boy.
(d) An elderly woman.

12. Who is Trudi's father?
(a) The constable.
(b) The local pay librarian.
(c) The doctor.
(d) The mayor.

13. Why does Oma ask to go to the hospital?
(a) She wants to visit her sister who is ill.
(b) She thinks she has pneumonia.
(c) She feels the same symptoms in her other leg that she did in the missing one.
(d) She wants to visit her best friend who is ill.

14. What does Hanna's mother give Hanna's father?
(a) Happiness and excitement.
(b) A reason to not work so hard.
(c) A reason to work hard.
(d) A headache.

15. What does Trudi say is reckless?
(a) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon eye color.
(b) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon a painting.
(c) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon hair color.
(d) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon a laugh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream?

2. Who does Hanna befriend?

3. Why does the mother go there?

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

5. What does Siegfried dream one day?

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