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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where does Siegfried live?
(a) Near the grain mill.
(b) Up on a mountain.
(c) Near the river.
(d) Near the center of town over the library.

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

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

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

9. What does Hanna learn from Trudi?
(a) That Hanna's father was previously engaged before marrying Hanna's mother.
(b) That Hanna's mother is not actually who she thinks she is.
(c) That Trudi's mother lives in the United States.
(d) That Trudi's father is going to retire.

10. What month of pregnancy is the narrator's mother entering?
(a) 5th.
(b) 10th.
(c) 3rd.
(d) 2nd.

11. Who does Hanna befriend?
(a) A new girl at school.
(b) A new man in her apartment building.
(c) A new boy at school.
(d) Her cousin's good friend.

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

13. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?
(a) None.
(b) Polio.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Scarlett fever.

14. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?
(a) No one goes near her.
(b) With thoughtlessness.
(c) With derision.
(d) With extreme care.

15. Who had Klara and her mother befriended near the end of the war?
(a) An American soldier.
(b) An Australian soldier.
(c) A blinded German soldier.
(d) A British soldier.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Siegfried die?

2. What does Trudi say about Hanna's father?

3. What does Hanna's paternal grandmother have only one leg?

4. How does Hanna's mother decide to help Oma?

5. What does Hanna often do with a flower she steals here and there?

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