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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 17 | Part 2, Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michael wear?
(a) A school uniform.
(b) Well-cut suits handed down from a rich uncle.
(c) A workman's uniform.
(d) Jeans and button-down shirts.

2. What play did Michael and Hanna see at the theater?
(a) Hamlet.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Intrigues and Love.

3. What does Michael learn from the citizens' registration office?
(a) That Hanna is in jail.
(b) That Hanna has died.
(c) That Hanna has moved to France.
(d) That Hanna has moved to Hamburg.

4. What is one of the narrator's first memories of childhood?
(a) Being hurt and neglected.
(b) Being washed and dressed by his mother in front of the stove.
(c) Being walked to school by his mother every day.
(d) Being read to by his father.

5. What does Michael shout out in his sleep, according to his brother?
(a) Sophie's name.
(b) Cries of pain.
(c) Hanna's name.
(d) Quotes from a play.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what age did Hanna join the army?

2. How does the narrator describe the feeling he gets from his father regarding their family?

3. What does the narrator do when Frau Schmitz catches him staring at her in Chapter 4?

4. What color is Frau Schmitz's hair?

5. What does the narrator say about the night after he took the bath in Frau Schmitz's apartment?

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