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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do people in the town think of Hanna's mother?
(a) She is beautiful.
(b) She is neglectful of her family.
(c) She is gracious.
(d) She is odd.

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

4. What does Hanna often do with a flower she steals here and there?
(a) Places them on her brother's grave.
(b) Decorates her room.
(c) Gives them to her teacher.
(d) Gives them to her mother.

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

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

7. How did people react to Hanna's mother's paintings?
(a) They were repulsed.
(b) They were awed.
(c) They were confused.
(d) They were critical.

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

9. With whom does Klara become lovers near the end of the war?
(a) An Australian soldier.
(b) A Scottish officer.
(c) A British soldier.
(d) An American soldier.

10. What does Hanna's mother refuse to do?
(a) Let Hanna attend school.
(b) Attend church.
(c) Let go of the baby after he had died.
(d) Start painting again.

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

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

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

14. For what is Siegfried searching?
(a) Peace from his fears.
(b) A wife.
(c) The meadow where he is killed in the dream.
(d) If dreams can be prophetic.

15. What does Hanna notice about Matthias after a particular man visits him?
(a) Matthias has bruises.
(b) Matthias won't speak to her for awhile.
(c) Matthias calls in sick to work.
(d) Matthias is despondent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the mother go there?

2. Who does Hanna befriend?

3. Who is Klara Blocker?

4. What favor did the visitor ask?

5. What is different about this dream than his usual ones?

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