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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money does Hanna leave for Michael to handle?
(a) The contents of the tea tin and 7,000 marks in the bank.
(b) The contents of the tea tin and 10,000 marks in the bank.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The contents of the tea tin and 20,000 marks in the bank.

2. What novel does Michael reread at the end of Part 3, Chapter 4?
(a) The Odyssey.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) Crime and Punishment.
(d) War and Peace.

3. When will Hanna make an appeal for clemency?
(a) The following month.
(b) The following year.
(c) The following week.
(d) In five years' time.

4. What does Michael never do on the recordings?
(a) Make personal comments or address anyone.
(b) Read in French.
(c) Name the title of a book.
(d) Read in English.

5. Why does the prison warden tell Michael she is nervous?
(a) She thinks Hanna's clemency will be revoked.
(b) Hanna has gotten very ill.
(c) She thinks Hanna is not prepared to be released.
(d) Hanna refused to go outside before she was released.

6. What does Michael do after his exams, something he has not done in a long while?
(a) Takes a streetcar.
(b) Writes a letter.
(c) Visits his parents.
(d) Visits his daughter.

7. What does Michael ask himself, sometimes, after Hanna's death?
(a) If he could have reduced her sentence.
(b) If she deserved it.
(c) If he loved her enough.
(d) If he was responsible.

8. Where does Michael go at the end of Part 3, Chapter 12?
(a) To his family's home.
(b) To Hanna's old apartment.
(c) To Hanna's grave.
(d) To New York.

9. What is Michael paying attention to during his discussion in Part 2, Chapter 16?
(a) The trains.
(b) The noises from the carpenters outside.
(c) The trial.
(d) The noises in the parking lot.

10. From whom does Michael receive a letter in Chapter 7?
(a) His old professor.
(b) The prison warden.
(c) His father.
(d) His daughter.

11. What job does Michael eventually take?
(a) A job working at a hospital.
(b) A job as a streetcar conductor.
(c) Another clerk position.
(d) A research job with a legal professor.

12. What happens to the Michael's professor who gives the concentration camp seminar?
(a) He becomes ill.
(b) He dies.
(c) He convinces Michael to divorce.
(d) He finds new evidence for Hanna's trial.

13. How does Michael make a quick exit at the end of the Part 3, Chapter 3?
(a) He jumps into a moving car.
(b) He rides away on a bicycle.
(c) He jumps onto a passing streetcar.
(d) He ducks into a church.

14. What does Michael think Hanna smells like, while sitting with her on the bench?
(a) Fresh flowers.
(b) A chid.
(c) An old woman.
(d) Soap.

15. In Part 3, Chapter 4, what does Michael deem "the most grotesque oversimplification of all"?
(a) Becoming a doctor.
(b) Defending.
(c) Prosecuting.
(d) Judging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sentences did the other defendants receive?

2. What is Hanna's sentence?

3. What does Michael notice about the note, upon first glance?

4. What is Michael's wife's name?

5. What does Michael say that illiteracy is?

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