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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 discover amongst Hanna's newspaper clippings?
(a) A picture of Jewish prisoners.
(b) A picture of himself at graduation.
(c) A picture of his daughter.
(d) A picture of he and Hanna.

2. What does the daughter want to keep?
(a) Michael's tapes.
(b) Half of the money.
(c) The tea tin.
(d) The letter from Hanna.

3. When could Michael finally carry out Hanna's instructions for her money?
(a) Summer.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Winter.

4. What does Michael decide to do after Hanna's death?
(a) Become a successful lawyer.
(b) Write the story of Hanna and him.
(c) Kill himself.
(d) Go back to Gertrud.

5. Where does Michael spend the summer after the trial?
(a) In the reading room of the university library.
(b) In a mental institution.
(c) Visiting his parents.
(d) With Sophie in France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of year is it in Chapter 3, Part 3?

2. What does Michael feel the notebook is testament to?

3. At the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 16, what does Michael say he couldn't "make himself do"?

4. What happens to the Michael's professor who gives the concentration camp seminar?

5. In the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 7, what does Michael say he had never thought about at the time?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the situation that happens at the restaurant in Chapter 15.

2. What happens when Michael goes to talk to the judge in Chapter 16?

3. What does Michael say about his relationships after Gertrud?

4. What happens when Michael speaks to Hanna, right before she is released, at the end of chapter 9?

5. Although Michael is happy, why does he also feel sorry for Hanna?

6. What does Michael do with his own writing?

7. What does the prison warden tell Michael about Hanna and her time in prison?

8. In Chapter 16, why does Michael say he "finds it unendurable to do nothing"?

9. In the beginning of Chapter 12, right after Hanna's death, what does Michael decide to do? Why?

10. What does Michael decide to do for work, and why?

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