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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. In what does Trudi engage regularly?
(a) Brisk walking.
(b) Knitting.
(c) Writing funny stories.
(d) Gossip.

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

3. With whom does Klara live?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her sister.
(c) She lives alone.
(d) Her mother.

4. Who does Hanna befriend?
(a) A new girl at school.
(b) Her cousin's good friend.
(c) A new boy at school.
(d) A new man in her apartment building.

5. What does Hanna's father continually remind Hanna's mother not to do?
(a) Gallop her horse so fast.
(b) Be reckless.
(c) Talk to the beggers on the corners.
(d) Crunch ice with her teeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the doctors at the hospital attempt to do?

2. Where does Siegfried live?

3. How does the action Siegfried take because of his dream get out of hand?

4. What was Matthias once training to be?

5. What does Siegfried begin doing in the evenings?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Matthias tell Hanna about his life as a priest in training?

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