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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long will the court (including the prosecution, defense, and judge) be in the new location?
(a) Three weeks.
(b) Five days.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) One week.

2. What does Michael plan to do while the trials are in another location?
(a) He plans to go along with the rest of the court.
(b) He plans to spend time with his family.
(c) He plans to spend time with Sophie.
(d) He plans to devote the time to his studies.

3. What happens to Sophie?
(a) She is sent to boarding school.
(b) She is diagnosed with cancer.
(c) She is sent to a mental asylum.
(d) She is diagnosed with tuberculosis.

4. Why were the defendants transferred from Auschwitz in 1944?
(a) To replace guards who were killed or injured in a factory bombing.
(b) As punishment for a poor performance at Auschwitz.
(c) To replace guards who were killed by the Liberation.
(d) To replace guards who fell ill.

5. At what age did Hanna join the army?
(a) 18.
(b) 25.
(c) 21.
(d) 30.

6. In what year of school does Michael enter into in Chapter 13?
(a) College.
(b) 12th grade.
(c) 10th grade.
(d) 11th grade.

7. What does Hanna not want to acknowledge that she had previously admitted to the court?
(a) That she had a key to the hospital.
(b) That she had no knowledge of prisoners in the church.
(c) That she had no knowledge of prisoners in the hospital.
(d) That she had a key to the church.

8. What does Hanna ask the presiding judge during the trial?
(a) "Did I have a choice?"
(b) "Why are you punishing me?"
(c) "What would you have done?"
(d) "What was I supposed to do?"

9. How old is Hanna, and when did she join the SS, as described in Part 2, Chapter 3?
(a) She is now 45, she joined the SS when she was 30.
(b) She is now 41, she joined the SS when she was 21.
(c) She is now 50, she joined the SS when she was 21.
(d) She is now 43, she joined the SS when she was 21.

10. What color is Frau Schmitz's hair?
(a) Red.
(b) Black.
(c) Ash-blond.
(d) Dark brown.

11. How long does the narrator wait before going back to Frau Schmitz's apartment?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Four weeks.
(c) Five weeks.
(d) One week.

12. Where did Hanna serve?
(a) At Auschwitz and a small camp near Cracow.
(b) Only at Auschwitz.
(c) At Auschwitz and a small camp near Berlin.
(d) Only at Struthof-Natzweiler.

13. Who does the plump defendant identify as writing the SS report?
(a) A guard.
(b) Hanna.
(c) Herself.
(d) The commander.

14. What does the survivor finally remember during the trial, and what does Hanna do after the survivor tells the court this?
(a) The survivor remembers that Hanna was never present at the selections, and Hanna turns to look at Michael.
(b) The survivor remembers Hanna was never present at the selections, and Hanna begins to cry.
(c) The survivor remembers that Hanna had the prisoners read aloud to her, and Hanna turns to look at Michael.
(d) The survivor remembers that Hanna had the prisoners read aloud to her, and Hanna begins to cry.

15. What does Hanna do to Michael when he returns to their hotel room in Chapter 11?
(a) She leaves him at the hotel.
(b) She kicks him.
(c) She slaps him.
(d) She hits him with a leather belt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What floor in the apartment building is the narrator directed to go in the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. What causes Hanna to say she wrote the report?

3. Where do the trials take place?

4. What is the narrator doing in the dream he describes in Chapter 2?

5. As described in Part 2, Chapter 11, what does Michael feel he should do regarding his epiphany about Hanna?

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