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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 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.

2. When do Hanna and her mother go off to swim?
(a) Before daylight on Saturdays.
(b) Whenever the clouds roll in.
(c) When Hanna gets a holiday from school.
(d) Always on Sundays.

3. Who does Trudi meet at the river one day?
(a) A young girl.
(b) A young boy.
(c) An elderly woman.
(d) A man.

4. Who came to ask a favor of Hanna's mother?
(a) The art teacher at Hanna's school.
(b) The local pastor's sister.
(c) The local pastor.
(d) The mayor.

5. Who is Matthias?
(a) The man Hanna befriends.
(b) Trudi's uncle.
(c) The priest where Trudi goes to church.
(d) Hanna's father's dentist partner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Matthias once training to be?

2. Who taught Hanna how to swim?

3. What do the doctors ask Hanna's father?

4. Where does Siegfried live?

5. How long did Hanna's mother hear about her paintings from people?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Trudi's mother dropping her supposedly affect her?

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

6. How is Trudi treated as a child?

7. Who does Hanna befriend?

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

9. What do the townspeople say is the source of Trudi's dwarfism?

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

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