View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the Michael's professor who gives the concentration camp seminar?
(a) He convinces Michael to divorce.
(b) He becomes ill.
(c) He finds new evidence for Hanna's trial.
(d) He dies.

2. In the beginning of Part 3, Chapter 7, what does Michael say he had never thought about at the time?
(a) Hanna's release.
(b) Hanna's death.
(c) His own path in life.
(d) His parent's deaths.

3. In Part 2, Chapter 14, who says "executioners don't hate the people they execute, and they execute them all the same"?
(a) The driver to Schirmeck.
(b) Michael's father.
(c) Hanna.
(d) The conductor on the train to Alsace.

4. To whom does Michael give Hanna's money?
(a) He keeps it for himself.
(b) He donates it to the prison where Hanna was kept.
(c) The Jewish League Against Illiteracy.
(d) His daughter.

5. What time of year is it in Chapter 3, Part 3?
(a) Autumn.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 3, Chapter 4, what does Michael deem "the most grotesque oversimplification of all"?

2. What does Michael learn after a phone call at the end of Part 3, Chapter 7?

3. What is Michael's daughter's name?

4. What sentences did the other defendants receive?

5. What does Michael ask himself, sometimes, after Hanna's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Michael feel upon seeing Hanna in Chapter 8, and how does he describe her?

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

3. What does Michael receive at the beginning of Chapter 6, and why does this cause him great joy?

4. What does Michael do to prepare for Hanna's release in Chapter 9?

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

6. Describe Gertrud and the relationship she develops with Michael as described in Chapter 2.

7. In Chapter 17, how does Michael describe Hanna at her sentencing?

8. Describe the driver Michael hitches a ride with in Chapter 14.

9. What decision does Michael struggle with at the beginning of Chapter 4, and why?

10. In Chapter 17, what is the atmosphere in the courtroom at the beginning of the sentencing?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,020 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample