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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 happens several weeks later after Matthias stops doing what Hanna noticed?
(a) He takes her to get ice cream.
(b) He has a new man visiting.
(c) He sits on the stoop again.
(d) He gets a new job.

2. What does Hanna notice Matthias stops doing?
(a) Giving her candy.
(b) Going to work.
(c) Sitting on the front stoop and talking to her.
(d) Inviting the man over.

3. Where does Siegfried die?
(a) On his way to the United States.
(b) In the meadow he had found.
(c) In the city park.
(d) In the upper floor of the library.

4. What is said Trudi's mother did to Trudi as a child?
(a) Starved her.
(b) Dropped her on her head.
(c) Left her in a dark room all the time.
(d) Tried to make her learn to read too soon.

5. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream?
(a) Buys a dog.
(b) Hires a lawyer.
(c) Buys a gun.
(d) Decides not to take an upcoming trip to the United States on an airplane.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What rumor is there about Hanna's girl friend?

3. How is it said that Trudi's mother went insane?

4. Where does Hanna's mother go swimming?

5. What does the mother learn about the baby?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Siegfried ultimately die?

5. Who does Hanna befriend?

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

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

8. Describe Trudi Montag.

9. When does Hanna's mother most like to swim?

10. What does the narrator's mother learn when she returns to the convent after starting labor?

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