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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 is a characteristic of Hanna's father?
(a) Mean.
(b) Adventurous.
(c) Strict.
(d) Conservative.

2. How is Trudi's father towards her?
(a) He lets her do whatever she wants.
(b) Overlyprotective.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) He seldom sees her and has a nanny care for her.

3. What favor did the visitor ask?
(a) For Hanna's mother to show her paintings in a church fair.
(b) For Hanna's mother to start attending church.
(c) For Hanna's mother to give the students a lecture on watercolor techniques.
(d) For Hanna's mother to judge an art show.

4. Why does the mother become enraged?
(a) Her baby had remained in utero too long and the nuns did nothing.
(b) The nuns say it is God's will.
(c) The nuns refuse to help her once they know the baby is dead.
(d) Her husband says the death is for the best.

5. What does Hanna's father do with Oma?
(a) Take her to stay with Oma's sister to care for the sister.
(b) Take her to her favorite beach.
(c) Take her to a specialist.
(d) Take her home to die.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Klara watching when she remembers the end of the war?

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

4. Who taught Hanna how to swim?

5. Who is Hanna's girlfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Klara Blocker?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How is Trudi treated as a child?

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

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

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

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