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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 had Klara and her mother befriended near the end of the war?
(a) A British soldier.
(b) A blinded German soldier.
(c) An Australian soldier.
(d) An American soldier.

2. Where does Hanna's mother go swimming?
(a) The river or old stone quarry.
(b) The ocean.
(c) A friend's pool.
(d) The lake.

3. What does Hanna's mother not show people for a long time?
(a) Her paintings.
(b) Photos of her past.
(c) Her home.
(d) Her emotions.

4. What happens to the solider?
(a) He is killed when Klara is three months pregant.
(b) He marries Klara but is then killed.
(c) He is refused permssion to marry Klara.
(d) He is supposedly reassigned.

5. What illness does Renate suffer as a child?
(a) Scarlett fever.
(b) Polio.
(c) None.
(d) Mumps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What one opportunity is destroyed by Trudi's father?

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

3. Who taught school in a nearby town according to Trudi?

4. Where does the baby die?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Klara Blocker?

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

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

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

6. Who does Hanna befriend?

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

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

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

10. Describe the narrator of these stories.

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