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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rolf send Hanna to do?
(a) Get him some paper and a pencil.
(b) Ask his mother to come talk with him.
(c) Get him some breakfast.
(d) Learn more about his father.

2. Where do Hanna and Renate go many times?
(a) The closed ferry landing.
(b) The abandoned flour mill.
(c) The old quarry.
(d) The lake.

3. What is the pastor forced into this action?
(a) The man stole some things from the church school.
(b) The man's mother was ill and needed medical care.
(c) The pastor was worried his sister would get hurt.
(d) Due to his inappropriate relationship with Hannelore.

4. What does the man do after the pastor took this action?
(a) Leaves town.
(b) Brings his mother to live with him.
(c) Hires a lawyer.
(d) Proposes to Hannelore.

5. Why is Hanna upset?
(a) Her father pays little attention to Hanna.
(b) Her father wants Hanna to be friends with the woman's daughter.
(c) She loses her mother's bracelet.
(d) Her father marries the woman he has been dating.

6. What happens to Karin?
(a) She seems unharmed by the event.
(b) She dies in childbirth.
(c) She is leery of men after that.
(d) She becomes pregnant.

7. Who hallucinates of poison falling from the sky?
(a) Hanna's mother.
(b) The man in the apartment above Hanna's family.
(c) Veronika.
(d) Trudi's neighbor.

8. What does Manfred's father ask his wife when he returns from a bar after holding Manfred out the window?
(a) For a divorce.
(b) For forgiveness.
(c) Nothing.
(d) For more money.

9. What does Hanna tell Rolf?
(a) She is happy that he and Klar are getting along again.
(b) She is glad Rolf is upset.
(c) She is sad about the missing cow.
(d) She knows all about Rolf's American father.

10. What do Hanna and Renate decide to do?
(a) Ask permission to skip school one day.
(b) Skip school without permission.
(c) Go swimming in a storm.
(d) Try to find Hans-Jurgen.

11. How does the person being criticized respond?
(a) He charges Immers more for the office visit for the parakeet.
(b) He trains the dog to jump on Immers.
(c) He paints over Immers' window.
(d) She shaves a big gouge in the cat's fur on the back.

12. What does Rolf ask Hanna?
(a) Not to play anymore jokes on his mother.
(b) Not to be friends with Hans Becker.
(c) If she will give him one of her new puppies.
(d) Not to talk to his mother when she is trying to work.

13. What does Hanna decide to do where she goes?
(a) Chip out a statue of her mother's face.
(b) Look to see where the murderer slept.
(c) Grab a barge chain and ride down the river.
(d) Look up books on death.

14. How does Manfred's mother react as his father dies?
(a) She is silent.
(b) She tries to save him.
(c) She is not there.
(d) She screams.

15. Who is Veronika?
(a) Trudi's housekeeper.
(b) Hanna's nanny.
(c) The new school teacher.
(d) Hanna's mother's friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is a search organized in the town?

2. What does Veronika think she is doing by her actions?

3. Who is Rolf?

4. How does Hanna ignore what Rolf asks of her?

5. How does Manfred's father try to manipulate his wife?

(see the answer keys)

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