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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does the mother intend to help with her giving birth?
(a) Nuns.
(b) Her sister.
(c) No one.
(d) A midwife.

5. What does Hanna's father do in response to the doctor's request?
(a) Gently pulls the baby out of his wife's arms.
(b) Moves his family.
(c) Wraps his arms around his wife.
(d) Walks Hanna to school everyday.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hanna say died as an infant?

2. Why does the mother become enraged?

3. How is Oma helped?

4. In what does Trudi engage regularly?

5. What do the doctors ask Hanna's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Oma healed of the second blood clot?

2. What is wrong with Renate's leg and why and how does Hanna try to fix it?

3. What is rumored about the child of the local midwife?

4. What do the townspeople thing about Hanna's mother and how do they respond to her paintings?

5. What does Trudi call Hanna's father's actions concerning his marriage and what does Hanna think about that?

6. How is Trudi treated as a child?

7. How did Trudi's mother dropping her supposedly affect her?

8. Who is Siegfried Tegern and what does he dream?

9. What does Hanna learn from Trudi about her father?

10. Who does Hanna befriend?

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