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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. How does the person being criticized respond?
(a) He trains the dog to jump on Immers.
(b) He charges Immers more for the office visit for the parakeet.
(c) She shaves a big gouge in the cat's fur on the back.
(d) He paints over Immers' window.

2. Why is Rolf deeply upset?
(a) He hates it when Hanna won't talk to him.
(b) He wishes his mother did not have to work so hard.
(c) He has never heard the truth about his father.
(d) He wishes his grandparents were living with them.

3. How does Hanna ignore what Rolf asks of her?
(a) She gives all the puppies away.
(b) She talks with his mother, following her throughout the house.
(c) She plays another joke on his mother.
(d) She invites Hans to a party.

4. Where does Immers live?
(a) In a retirement home.
(b) In a house above the butcher shop.
(c) In an apartment where Trudi's family lives.
(d) In an apartment where Hanna's family lives.

5. How does Immers win prizes?
(a) Showing his favorite cat.
(b) Showing his one parakeet that has a large vocabulary.
(c) Showing his two poodles.
(d) Showing his violets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Rolf confront Hanna?

2. How does Hanna think she might get to town one day when she is at the river?

3. What causes Manfred's father to become violent?

4. Of what does Hanna's father assure Hanna?

5. What does Hanna scheme for a while after Karin gives birth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Manfred's father do with the money and then what does he ask his wife when he returns home?

2. How does Manfred's father endanger Manfred?

3. What does Hanna do at the river when she is upset at her father?

4. What is the effect of the painter's actions on Anton and what do the townspeople say about it?

5. From where does Hans-Jurgen escape and who decides to search for him?

6. Why does Hannelore leave her brother's home?

7. Why does a painter paint over Anton's bedroom window?

8. How old was Hanna when her mother died and how did her mother die?

9. Who is the new person in town and how does this involve Hannelore?

10. What does Hanna think about as she is recovering from her fright on the river?

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