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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does Hanna's father meet Hanna's mother?
(a) Her best friend's brother is a good friend of Hanna's father.
(b) She was once Hanna's teacher.
(c) She came to have her teeth worked on.
(d) She shares a train compartment with him on a trip.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What reassurance does the mother receive?
(a) The doctor will come to her home when she is ready to give birth.
(b) The baby is resting for the birth.
(c) The midwife will return from the midwife's daughter's home soon.
(d) Her husband will return that day.

15. What does Klara vow to do?
(a) Destroy her son's father's picture.
(b) Give her son up for adoption.
(c) Go to Scotland and find the father of her baby.
(d) Let her sister and husband raise her son since they have no children.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the baby die?

2. What does the narrator's mother realize?

3. What is the outcome of Oma's illness?

4. Who does the mother intend to help with her giving birth?

5. What happens when the mother goes into labor?

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