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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Klara tell her lover one day?
(a) She is engaged to an old family friend.
(b) Her husband is coming home.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She wants to go with him to Australia.

2. What favor did the visitor ask?
(a) For Hanna's mother to show her paintings in a church fair.
(b) For Hanna's mother to start attending church.
(c) For Hanna's mother to judge an art show.
(d) For Hanna's mother to give the students a lecture on watercolor techniques.

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

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

5. What does Trudi become?
(a) A bitter, abused wife.
(b) A beloved teacher.
(c) An old maid and librarian.
(d) A party goer.

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

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

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

9. Who is Klara Blocker?
(a) Hanna's father's sister.
(b) The neighbor and Hanna's mother's best friend.
(c) The maid to Hanna's family.
(d) Hanna's best friend.

10. Why does Matthias not pursue the course of training he had started?
(a) He discovered he like dentistry better.
(b) It did not suit him.
(c) He realized he did not have the mathematical aptitude.
(d) He became ill.

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

13. Who is Matthias?
(a) Trudi's uncle.
(b) Hanna's father's dentist partner.
(c) The priest where Trudi goes to church.
(d) The man Hanna befriends.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the action Siegfried take because of his dream get out of hand?

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

3. How does Hanna's paternal grandmother often get around in the house?

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

5. Who had Klara and her mother befriended near the end of the war?

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