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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 rumor is there about Hanna's girl friend?
(a) She is not actually the daughter of who claims her.
(b) The young girl is gravely ill.
(c) The girl is a genius.
(d) The girl is actually the product of an Australian solider and the midwife's best friend.

2. Why does Matthias not pursue the course of training he had started?
(a) He discovered he like dentistry better.
(b) It did not suit him.
(c) He became ill.
(d) He realized he did not have the mathematical aptitude.

3. What does Seigfried find in his search?
(a) He learns about Moses' ability to interpret dreams.
(b) An old friend to whom he becomes engaged.
(c) No peace.
(d) The meadow where his dream occurs.

4. For what is Siegfried searching?
(a) A wife.
(b) The meadow where he is killed in the dream.
(c) Peace from his fears.
(d) If dreams can be prophetic.

5. What is the outcome of Oma's illness?
(a) She recovers.
(b) She dies.
(c) She never recovers bu does not die for several years.
(d) She becomes extremely depressed and kills herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the mother trust over the next three days?

2. Who is Renate?

3. What happens to the solider?

4. What does Klara tell her lover one day?

5. What is said is the result of what Trudi's mother did?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Trudi treated as a child?

2. What do many people believe is the cause of Trudi becoming an old maid?

3. Who is Klara Blocker?

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

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

6. Who does Hanna befriend?

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

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

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

10. What does Matthias do about Hanna's suggestion about the man who visits him?

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