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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What must Michael decide after his last state exam?
(a) Whether he will divorce his wife.
(b) His profession within the law.
(c) Whether he will go to visit Hanna.
(d) His medical specialty.

4. According to the prison warden, once Hanna learned to read, what did she request?
(a) Literature on concentration camps.
(b) Books about law.
(c) Plays by Shakespeare.
(d) Greek classics.

5. What is one area of Michael's specialty?
(a) Pediatrics.
(b) Psychology of criminals.
(c) Divorce law.
(d) Law of the Third Reich.

6. Why does Michael marry his wife?
(a) She looks like Hanna.
(b) She is beautiful.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She promises him a happy life.

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

8. What does Michael notice about the note, upon first glance?
(a) The perfumed paper.
(b) The bright pink letters.
(c) The carelessness with which it was written.
(d) The childish handwriting.

9. What invitation does Michael accept during Christmas vacation?
(a) An invitation to America.
(b) An invitation on a ski trip with other students.
(c) An invitation to study at a prestigious university.
(d) An invitation to stay with Hanna's relatives.

10. To whom does Michael give Hanna's money?
(a) He keeps it for himself.
(b) He donates it to the prison where Hanna was kept.
(c) His daughter.
(d) The Jewish League Against Illiteracy.

11. What does Michael believe the person from the cemetery will ask him about the trial?
(a) Why he never came to hear the verdict.
(b) What was going on between him and the defendant, Hanna.
(c) Why he seemed so distant during the trials.
(d) Why he was never late.

12. What is Michael's wife's name?
(a) Gertrud.
(b) Sara.
(c) Anna.
(d) Sophie.

13. How does Hanna address Michael?
(a) "My love."
(b) "Michael."
(c) "Kid."
(d) "Mr. Berg."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Michael do after his exams, something he has not done in a long while?

2. In Part 2, Chapter 14, who says "executioners don't hate the people they execute, and they execute them all the same"?

3. What is the daughter like?

4. Where does Michael travel to in Part 3, Chapter 11?

5. What does the prison warden show Michael when he visits the prison after learning Hanna has died?

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