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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hanna's father do with Oma?
(a) Take her to a specialist.
(b) Take her to stay with Oma's sister to care for the sister.
(c) Take her home to die.
(d) Take her to her favorite beach.

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

3. What happens when the mother goes into labor?
(a) She is relieved that the baby is alive.
(b) She goes to the convent.
(c) She is sad that her pregnancy is about to be over.
(d) She panics and sends her husband for the midwife too soon.

4. What does Hanna encourage Matthias to do?
(a) No invite the violent man over anymore.
(b) Get some tutoring in math.
(c) Take Hanna's aunt to dinner.
(d) Go back to his training.

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

6. When do Hanna and her mother go off to swim?
(a) When Hanna gets a holiday from school.
(b) Always on Sundays.
(c) Whenever the clouds roll in.
(d) Before daylight on Saturdays.

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

8. Who came to ask a favor of Hanna's mother?
(a) The mayor.
(b) The art teacher at Hanna's school.
(c) The local pastor's sister.
(d) The local pastor.

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

10. What does the mother learn about the baby?
(a) It is a breech.
(b) It is healthy.
(c) It has died.
(d) It is a boy.

11. How is Oma helped?
(a) By special herbs and vitamin supplements.
(b) By special teas.
(c) Her other leg is amputated.
(d) By massage and working the darkness and pain out of Oma's body.

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

13. What is different about this dream than his usual ones?
(a) He is able to change it consciously while still sleeping.
(b) It is vivid and recurs.
(c) It has no dream quality to it.
(d) He is not in the dream; just a narrator.

14. What does Hanna's mother not show people for a long time?
(a) Photos of her past.
(b) Her home.
(c) Her emotions.
(d) Her paintings.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Hanna befriend?

3. With whom does Klara become lovers near the end of the war?

4. What does Hanna's father continually remind Hanna's mother not to do?

5. What reassurance does the mother receive?

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