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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 does Michael learn from the citizens' registration office?
(a) That Hanna has moved to Hamburg.
(b) That Hanna is in jail.
(c) That Hanna has died.
(d) That Hanna has moved to France.

2. How does the narrator describe the feeling he gets from his father regarding their family?
(a) He feels they are like pets to his father.
(b) He feels they are cherished by his father.
(c) He feels they are like friends to his father, rather than family.
(d) He feels they are like burdens to his father.

3. Where is Hanna from?
(a) A German community in Belgium.
(b) A German community in Rumania.
(c) A German community in France.
(d) A German community in Poland.

4. What does the survivor finally remember during the trial, and what does Hanna do after the survivor tells the court this?
(a) The survivor remembers that Hanna had the prisoners read aloud to her, and Hanna turns to look at Michael.
(b) The survivor remembers that Hanna was never present at the selections, and Hanna turns to look at Michael.
(c) The survivor remembers Hanna was never present at the selections, and Hanna begins to cry.
(d) The survivor remembers that Hanna had the prisoners read aloud to her, and Hanna begins to cry.

5. What does Frau Schmitz do for a living?
(a) Frau Schmitz is a factory worker.
(b) Frau Schmitz is a nurse.
(c) Frau Schmitz is a lawyer.
(d) Frau Schmitz is a streetcar conductor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. One of the main charges in the case involved a bombing; where was the bombing? Who survived?

3. In what month do the relocated trials take place?

4. What happens on the day in July when Michael leaves a pool party to be with Hanna?

5. In what year of school does Michael enter into in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator's mother assume he would do at the end of Chapter 1, after the narrator is diagnosed with hepatitis?

3. Describe Michael's daydreams from Chapter 13.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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