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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. In what year of school does Michael enter into in Chapter 13?
(a) 10th grade.
(b) 12th grade.
(c) 11th grade.
(d) College.

2. Where does Michael see Hanna again, in Part 2, Chapter 2?
(a) A classroom.
(b) A courtroom.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A mental institution.

3. On what street does the narrator live?
(a) Bahnhofstrasse.
(b) Einbahnstrasse.
(c) Schillerstrasse.
(d) Blumenstrasse.

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 hospital.
(b) That she had a key to the hospital.
(c) That she had no knowledge of prisoners in the church.
(d) That she had a key to the church.

5. Why does Michael see Hanna in this place?
(a) He is working as an orderly at a hospital.
(b) He is a law student attending a seminar on the Nazi trials.
(c) He tracks her down through old friends.
(d) She is teaching one of his law classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the daughter, how could the prisoners have saved themselves?

2. What decision does Michael make at the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 12?

3. What is the first thing the narrator notices when he returns to Frau Schmitz's apartment in Chapter 6?

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

5. What does Michael plan to do while the trials are in another location?

Short Essay Questions

1. As described in Chapter 10, where is Michael when he has an epiphany about Hanna? What is the epiphany, and how does Michael realize it?

2. How does Michael "betray" Hanna, as he explains in Chapter 15?

3. In Part 2, Chapter 4, how does Michael compare the trial to being a prisoner in a death camp?

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

5. Why is the evidence actually favorable to the defendants, as explained in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

9. What does Michael do while staying home alone during the last week of vacation, in Chapter 12?

10. Describe the only time Michael sees Hanna by chance, in Chapter 16.

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