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

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

3. In what apartment does Klara live?
(a) An apartment that is constructed just as the war is ending.
(b) She lives in a house, not an apartment.
(c) The same one she lived in during the war.
(d) A brand new high rise.

4. Why does Oma ask to go to the hospital?
(a) She thinks she has pneumonia.
(b) She wants to visit her sister who is ill.
(c) She feels the same symptoms in her other leg that she did in the missing one.
(d) She wants to visit her best friend who is ill.

5. What does Hanna's mother give Hanna's father?
(a) A reason to not work so hard.
(b) A reason to work hard.
(c) A headache.
(d) Happiness and excitement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hanna think her mother and father do for each other?

2. How does Hanna's mother decide to help Oma?

3. Who is Hanna's girlfriend?

4. Where does Siegfried die?

5. What does Hanna's mother refuse to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the townspeople thing about Hanna's mother and how do they respond to her paintings?

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

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

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

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

7. Describe Hanna's father.

8. How does Siegfried ultimately die?

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

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

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