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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. Who does Hanna say died as an infant?
(a) Her teacher's baby.
(b) The neighbor next door's granddaugher.
(c) Her little brother.
(d) Her cousin.

2. What does Hanna notice about Matthias after a particular man visits him?
(a) Matthias has bruises.
(b) Matthias calls in sick to work.
(c) Matthias is despondent.
(d) Matthias won't speak to her for awhile.

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 wants to visit her sister who is ill.
(b) She thinks she has pneumonia.
(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. In what does Trudi engage regularly?
(a) Knitting.
(b) Writing funny stories.
(c) Gossip.
(d) Brisk walking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hanna befriend?

2. What do people in the town think of Hanna's mother?

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

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

5. Where does Hanna's mother go swimming?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrator of these stories.

2. What does Hanna notice about Matthias after he receives a regular visitor and what does she say to Matthias about her observation?

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

4. Describe Matthias Berger.

5. Describe Hanna's father.

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

7. Describe Trudi Montag.

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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