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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. Where does the narrator's mother go?
(a) A free clinic.
(b) A drugstore.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A convent.

2. What does Hanna encourage Matthias to do?
(a) Go back to his training.
(b) Take Hanna's aunt to dinner.
(c) No invite the violent man over anymore.
(d) Get some tutoring in math.

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

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

5. What is Trudi almost tempted to do at the river?
(a) Go out in a boat.
(b) Go fishing.
(c) Go swimming in her dress.
(d) Go skinny dipping with the person she meets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Klara tell her lover one day?

2. What does Hanna often do with a flower she steals here and there?

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

4. What does Siegfried do as a result of the dream?

5. Why doesn't Trudi do what she almost started to do at the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Trudi treated as a child?

2. What does Trudi call Hanna's father's actions concerning his marriage and what does Hanna think about that?

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

4. How does Hanna's mother get Hanna involved in swimming?

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

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

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

8. What does Hanna learn from Trudi about her father?

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

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

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