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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hanna's answer to the judge's question, "why did you not unlock the doors?"
(a) "We didn't have any alternative."
(b) "We didn't know how."
(c) "We didn't know it was locked."
(d) "We didn't have a key."

2. On what street is the building the narrator talks about in Chapter 2?
(a) Blumenstrasse.
(b) Schillerstrasse.
(c) Bahnofstrasse.
(d) Einbahnstrasse.

3. In Chapter 13, what book is the class translating?
(a) The Iliad.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) The Odyssey.
(d) War and Peace.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While wandering in the woods, what is Michael's epiphany?

2. What does the man in charge of the streetcar company tell Michael?

3. What is the first story Michael reads to Hanna?

4. In Part 2, Chapter 13, the trials move to a new location. Where does the trial take place?

5. What does Michael learn from the citizens' registration office?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the bicycle trip that Michael and Hanna take during Michael's Easter vacation.

2. Describe Hanna's life, as she tells it to Michael in Chapter 9.

3. Describe Michael's feelings about his last years in school and his first years in university, as he relates them in Part 2, Chapter 1.

4. How does Michael justify thinking of Hanna as a horse in Chapter 14?

5. Describe Hanna's bold and unconventional move during the trial, as outlined in Chapter 6.

6. Describe the lines of reasoning the defendants (including Hanna) give for not unlocking the church doors, as explained in Chapter 9.

7. Describe the building on Bahnhofstrasse.

8. Describe the Frau Schmitz's apartment.

9. At the end of Chapter 11, what are the comparisons Michael makes to his predicament with the trial?

10. Describe how Michael becomes involved in the court and Hanna's trial, as it is told in Part 2, Chapter 2.

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