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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Michael's wife say about his choice of job?
(a) It is an escape from the realities of life.
(b) It is a noble pursuit.
(c) It is a rewarding position.
(d) It is an escape to get past the memory of Hanna.

2. At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 16, what does Michael say he couldn't "make himself do"?
(a) Talk to his father.
(b) Visit Hanna.
(c) Visit Sophie.
(d) Talk to the judge.

3. According to Michael in Chapter 1 of Part 3, what type of love are we not responsible for?
(a) The love of life.
(b) The love of our parents.
(c) The love of a woman.
(d) The love of our siblings.

4. When is the verdict reached?
(a) The beginning of June.
(b) The end of June.
(c) The end of May.
(d) The beginning of May.

5. What can the dead do, according to Hanna?
(a) They can torment you.
(b) They can be happy.
(c) They can understand.
(d) They can be at peace.

6. In the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 7, what does Michael say he had never thought about at the time?
(a) His parent's deaths.
(b) His own path in life.
(c) Hanna's death.
(d) Hanna's release.

7. How much time passes before Michael receives a note from Hanna?
(a) Ten years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Four years.
(d) One year.

8. What does Michael do to stay awake, after he and his wife separate?
(a) Wanders the city.
(b) He doesn't stay awake; he sleeps for hours on end.
(c) Starts to paint.
(d) Reads aloud.

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

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

11. What does Michael feel upon reading the note?
(a) Joy and jubilation.
(b) Supreme anger.
(c) Profound sadness.
(d) Heartsickness.

12. What has Michael noticed about Hanna's voice at the end of Part 3, Chapter 9?
(a) It sounds like music.
(b) It is harsh and ragged.
(c) It has stayed young.
(d) She is barely audible.

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

14. When does Michael go to the prison for the first time?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Monday.

15. Where does "the daughter" live?
(a) On a street near Central Park.
(b) In a small apartment in Berlin.
(c) At a vineyard in France.
(d) Near the Capitol Building.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, Chapter 4, what does Michael deem "the most grotesque oversimplification of all"?

2. What time of year does Michael revisit his destination from Part 2, Chapter 14?

3. What does Michael keep in the notebook?

4. What does Michael say that illiteracy is?

5. Where does Michael spend the summer after the trial?

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