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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does this new friend of Hanna's live next to?
(a) Across the street from the school.
(b) Hanna's mother's art studio.
(c) Next to the train station.
(d) Next door to Hanna's cousin.

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

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

4. What does the mother ask about the baby?
(a) If it is going to be a girl.
(b) If she should be concerned.
(c) If the baby is ready to come out.
(d) If the baby is too premature.

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

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

7. What does Hanna's paternal grandmother have only one leg?
(a) She was in a car accident.
(b) She lost the other one to a blood clot.
(c) She was born with a shriveled leg they had to eventually amputate.
(d) She was born with only one leg and one hand.

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

9. Who is Renate?
(a) Hanna's cousin.
(b) The midwife.
(c) Hanna's sister.
(d) The midwife's daughter.

10. How long did Hanna's mother hear about her paintings from people?
(a) They were still talking about them when Hanna was a middle-aged woman.
(b) Every time she displays them, there is gossip for a while.
(c) They eventually stopped talking about them.
(d) They never talked about them.

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

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

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

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

15. What does the mother trust over the next three days?
(a) The nuns.
(b) The fact that the midwife will return in time.
(c) The doctor's assurances.
(d) Her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is said Trudi's mother did to Trudi as a child?

2. What does Hanna think her mother and father do for each other?

3. Where does Trudi's mother die?

4. Where does Hanna's mother go swimming?

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

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