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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Where does Siegfried die?
(a) In the city park.
(b) On his way to the United States.
(c) In the upper floor of the library.
(d) In the meadow he had found.

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

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

5. What is said Trudi's mother did to Trudi as a child?
(a) Tried to make her learn to read too soon.
(b) Left her in a dark room all the time.
(c) Dropped her on her head.
(d) Starved her.

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

7. How is Trudi's father towards her?
(a) He seldom sees her and has a nanny care for her.
(b) He lets her do whatever she wants.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Overlyprotective.

8. What does Hanna learn from Trudi?
(a) That Hanna's father was previously engaged before marrying Hanna's mother.
(b) That Trudi's father is going to retire.
(c) That Trudi's mother lives in the United States.
(d) That Hanna's mother is not actually who she thinks she is.

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

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

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

12. For what is Siegfried searching?
(a) The meadow where he is killed in the dream.
(b) Peace from his fears.
(c) A wife.
(d) If dreams can be prophetic.

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

14. Why doesn't Trudi do what she almost started to do at the river?
(a) Her neighbor stops her.
(b) The water is too cold.
(c) Her father arrives and stops her.
(d) She doesn't want to put the worm on the hook.

15. What was Matthias once training to be?
(a) A doctor.
(b) An architect.
(c) An engineer.
(d) A priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who came to ask a favor of Hanna's mother?

2. What does Seigfried find in his search?

3. What does Hanna encourage Matthias to do?

4. Who does Hanna say died as an infant?

5. How is Trudi treated in her childhood?

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