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

2. 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.

3. What one opportunity is destroyed by Trudi's father?
(a) To go to boarding school.
(b) To travel to Pais.
(c) For love.
(d) To become an actress.

4. About what does Siegfried start feeling better?
(a) His last job which is almost complete.
(b) The tenuous nature of life.
(c) The prospect of marriage.
(d) His dream.

5. What do the doctors at the hospital attempt to do?
(a) Treat Oma's blood clot in her other leg.
(b) Convince Oma's friend to go home.
(c) Treat Oma's sister with a new drug.
(d) Give Oma some lung treatments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Siegfried begin doing in the evenings?

2. Who taught school in a nearby town according to Trudi?

3. What does Hanna notice Matthias stops doing?

4. Where does this new friend of Hanna's live next to?

5. What happens to the solider?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Oma go back to the hospital one day?

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

3. What happens when Hanna's baby brother is born?

4. Describe Trudi Montag.

5. How is Trudi treated as a child?

6. What is the problem with the narrator's mother in White Lilacs and what does she do?

7. Describe Klara's romance with an American soldier.

8. What happens to Hanna's paternal grandmother and how does she cope?

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

10. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream and why does he do so?

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