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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does the mother become enraged?
(a) Her husband says the death is for the best.
(b) The nuns say it is God's will.
(c) The nuns refuse to help her once they know the baby is dead.
(d) Her baby had remained in utero too long and the nuns did nothing.

3. What do the doctors ask Hanna's father?
(a) To make Hanna go to school.
(b) To take the baby from his wife.
(c) To commit Hanna's mother to the hospital for therapy.
(d) To make sure his wife does not harm their new son.

4. Why does the mother go there?
(a) She wants something for her pain.
(b) She intends to give birth there.
(c) She wants the doctor to listen to her baby's heartbeat.
(d) She wants to request prayers.

5. What caused Hanna's father to fall in love with Hanna's mother?
(a) He saw one of her paintings.
(b) Her unusual grey eyes.
(c) Her unusual almost gold hair.
(d) Her lilting laugh.

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

7. Who taught school in a nearby town according to Trudi?
(a) Trudi's mother.
(b) Trudi's father's lover.
(c) The woman Hanna's father almost married.
(d) Trudi's aunt.

8. What does Seigfried find in his search?
(a) No peace.
(b) He learns about Moses' ability to interpret dreams.
(c) The meadow where his dream occurs.
(d) An old friend to whom he becomes engaged.

9. In what apartment does Klara live?
(a) She lives in a house, not an apartment.
(b) The same one she lived in during the war.
(c) A brand new high rise.
(d) An apartment that is constructed just as the war is ending.

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

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

12. How does Hanna's paternal grandmother often get around in the house?
(a) A chair to which her husband attached wheels.
(b) A wheelchair donate to her by a medical charity group.
(c) An electric scooter.
(d) Holding on to a chair she drags across the floor.

13. Where does Siegfried die?
(a) In the upper floor of the library.
(b) In the city park.
(c) In the meadow he had found.
(d) On his way to the United States.

14. What does the narrator's mother realize?
(a) Her husband is not going to return home in time for the delivery.
(b) She is about to go into labor.
(c) She is not sure she wants to keep the baby.
(d) She cannot feel the baby moving.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Siegfried begin doing in the evenings?

2. What does the mother trust over the next three days?

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

4. What does Klara vow to do?

5. How did people react to Hanna's mother's paintings?

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