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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Hanna say died as an infant?
(a) Her cousin.
(b) Her little brother.
(c) The neighbor next door's granddaugher.
(d) Her teacher's baby.

3. What does Trudi say is reckless?
(a) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon a laugh.
(b) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon eye color.
(c) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon a painting.
(d) Hanna's father falling for Hanna's mother based upon hair color.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happens several weeks later after Matthias stops doing what Hanna noticed?
(a) He has a new man visiting.
(b) He sits on the stoop again.
(c) He takes her to get ice cream.
(d) He gets a new job.

11. How does the midwife seem before she returns home with her daughter?
(a) Boisterous.
(b) Secretive.
(c) Withdrawn.
(d) Not pregnant.

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

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

14. What does Hanna's father continually remind Hanna's mother not to do?
(a) Be reckless.
(b) Gallop her horse so fast.
(c) Talk to the beggers on the corners.
(d) Crunch ice with her teeth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused Hanna's father to fall in love with Hanna's mother?

2. What does Siegfried begin doing in the evenings?

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

4. Who is Klara Blocker?

5. How is Trudi's father towards her?

(see the answer keys)

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