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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hanna take holy water to Renate?
(a) To see if Renate will drink it.
(b) To try to heal Renate's leg.
(c) To try to heal herself.
(d) To bless the midwife's home.

2. What is Siegfried Tegern's occupation?
(a) Solicitor.
(b) Banker.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Architect.

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

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

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

6. Where does the baby die?
(a) In the hospital in an incubator.
(b) On the street where it had crawled.
(c) In the bathtub.
(d) In his mother's arms.

7. What rumor is there about Hanna's girl friend?
(a) The girl is actually the product of an Australian solider and the midwife's best friend.
(b) The young girl is gravely ill.
(c) She is not actually the daughter of who claims her.
(d) The girl is a genius.

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

9. Why does Oma ask to go to the hospital?
(a) She thinks she has pneumonia.
(b) She feels the same symptoms in her other leg that she did in the missing one.
(c) She wants to visit her best friend who is ill.
(d) She wants to visit her sister who is ill.

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

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

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

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

14. What does Hanna often do with a flower she steals here and there?
(a) Gives them to her mother.
(b) Places them on her brother's grave.
(c) Gives them to her teacher.
(d) Decorates her room.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About what does Siegfried start feeling better?

2. What do the doctors at the hospital attempt to do?

3. What do people in the town think of Hanna's mother?

4. How is it said that Trudi's mother went insane?

5. How does the midwife seem before she returns home with her daughter?

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