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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 does Klara vow to do?
(a) Let her sister and husband raise her son since they have no children.
(b) Destroy her son's father's picture.
(c) Give her son up for adoption.
(d) Go to Scotland and find the father of her baby.

2. How is it said that Trudi's mother went insane?
(a) Her husband hit her in the head too often.
(b) Her grandmother passed insanity on to Trudi's mother.
(c) From seeing her young son drown.
(d) From guilt of dropping Trudi.

3. What does Hanna's father do in response to the doctor's request?
(a) Wraps his arms around his wife.
(b) Moves his family.
(c) Walks Hanna to school everyday.
(d) Gently pulls the baby out of his wife's arms.

4. For what is Siegfried searching?
(a) A wife.
(b) Peace from his fears.
(c) If dreams can be prophetic.
(d) The meadow where he is killed in the dream.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hanna's mother go swimming?

2. What does the narrator's mother realize?

3. Who came to ask a favor of Hanna's mother?

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

5. What is said Trudi's mother did to Trudi as a child?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Matthias do about Hanna's suggestion about the man who visits him?

2. Describe the narrator of these stories.

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

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

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

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

7. When does Hanna's mother most like to swim?

8. How is Oma healed of the second blood clot?

9. Describe Matthias Berger.

10. Describe Hanna's father.

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