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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 river.
(b) Near the center of town over the library.
(c) Up on a mountain.
(d) Near the grain mill.

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

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

4. With whom does Klara live?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her sister.
(c) She lives alone.
(d) Her husband.

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

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

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

8. Where does the mother go after leaving the convent?
(a) The local midwife.
(b) She wanders the streets.
(c) Her own home.
(d) Her parent's home.

9. 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.

10. What is Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?
(a) A movie on television.
(b) Her mother knitting.
(c) The potato delivery.
(d) Her children playing in the yard.

11. What does Hanna notice about Matthias after a particular man visits him?
(a) Matthias won't speak to her for awhile.
(b) Matthias has bruises.
(c) Matthias calls in sick to work.
(d) Matthias is despondent.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Klara Blocker?

2. What does Hanna's mother give Hanna's father?

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

4. What does Hanna learn from Trudi?

5. Where does Trudi's mother die?

(see the answer keys)

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