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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. With whom does Klara become lovers near the end of the war?
(a) A British soldier.
(b) An American soldier.
(c) An Australian soldier.
(d) A Scottish officer.

2. What does Hanna encourage Matthias to do?
(a) Take Hanna's aunt to dinner.
(b) Go back to his training.
(c) Get some tutoring in math.
(d) No invite the violent man over anymore.

3. What does the narrator's mother realize?
(a) Her husband is not going to return home in time for the delivery.
(b) She is not sure she wants to keep the baby.
(c) She cannot feel the baby moving.
(d) She is about to go into labor.

4. What does Siegfried dream one day?
(a) He is imprisoned by some brigands.
(b) He is hung for a crime he did not commit.
(c) He is killed in a meadow.
(d) He is flying alongside an airplane.

5. What do people in the town think of Hanna's mother?
(a) She is gracious.
(b) She is beautiful.
(c) She is odd.
(d) She is neglectful of her family.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Oma ask to go to the hospital?

3. What does Hanna's father do in response to the doctor's request?

4. Where does Siegfried live?

5. What does Hanna's mother not show people for a long time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hanna's father end up marrying a different woman than the one to whom he is first engaged?

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

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

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

5. Describe Trudi Montag.

6. Describe the narrator of these stories.

7. What is Hanna's mother told by the nuns when she goes to the convent, and what is the mother's response?

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

9. What does Hanna notice about Matthias after he receives a regular visitor and what does she say to Matthias about her observation?

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

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