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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. When is the indictment read?
(a) During the third week of the trial.
(b) After a month of trials.
(c) During the first week of the trial.
(d) During the second week of the trial.

2. According to the daughter, how could the prisoners have saved themselves?
(a) By begging the guards for mercy.
(b) By immediately getting together to plot against the guards.
(c) By poisoning the guards.
(d) By immediately getting together to break down the doors of the church.

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

4. During what month does the narrator get ill on the street?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) October.
(d) November.

5. What is one of the narrator's first memories of childhood?
(a) Being hurt and neglected.
(b) Being washed and dressed by his mother in front of the stove.
(c) Being read to by his father.
(d) Being walked to school by his mother every day.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old is Hanna, and when did she join the SS, as described in Part 2, Chapter 3?

3. Why were the defendants transferred from Auschwitz in 1944?

4. What play did Michael and Hanna see at the theater?

5. By what name is one of the guards known in the survivor's book?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the memory the narrator discusses in Chapter 7, when he is four years old. Why is it significant?

2. Describe Hanna's lawyer from Part 2, Chapter 3.

3. Why does Michael decide to talk to his father in Chapter 12?

4. How does the narrator find the courage to return to Frau Schmitz's apartment?

5. What does Michael do in the weeks after he and Hanna have their first fight?

6. Describe Michael's daydreams from Chapter 13.

7. Describe the encounter between Frau Schmitz and the narrator in Chapter 6.

8. Describe the five defendants' roles, and their involvement in the crimes that brought them to the trial, as described in Part 2, Chapter 5.

9. Describe Michael's classroom and classmates as they are presented in Chapter 13.

10. What makes Frau (Hanna) Schmitz so angry in Chapter 8?

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