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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Michael plan to do while the trials are in another location?
2. What happens to Sophie?
3. How does the narrator describe being ill in the beginning of Chapter 5?
4. What lie does Hanna tell to Michael in Chapter 11?
5. What play did Michael and Hanna see at the theater?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Hanna's lawyer from Part 2, Chapter 3.
2. Describe how Michael becomes involved in the court and Hanna's trial, as it is told in Part 2, Chapter 2.
3. Describe the building on Bahnhofstrasse.
4. What does the narrator's mother assume he would do at the end of Chapter 1, after the narrator is diagnosed with hepatitis?
5. Why is the evidence actually favorable to the defendants, as explained in Chapter 7?
6. Describe Hanna's bold and unconventional move during the trial, as outlined in Chapter 6.
7. Describe what happened the night the church was bombed, as explained in Chapter 8,
8. Describe the only time Michael sees Hanna by chance, in Chapter 16.
9. Describe the Frau Schmitz's apartment.
10. How does Michael "betray" Hanna, as he explains in Chapter 15?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Part 2, Chapter 14, Michael has an exchange with a man who gives him a ride to the concentration camp. How does their conversation illustrate the disconnect between Michael's generation and that of his elders? How are their opinions about the war and justice similar, and how do they differ?
Essay Topic 2
In the early chapters of the novel, Michael describes the setting--Hanna's apartment, the city, the streetcars--in great detail. How do Michael's detailed descriptions give the reader clues to his character? How do details about the scenery advance the plot of the novel?
Essay Topic 3
When Michael begins to read aloud to Hanna, it starts out as an intimate activity. Give examples as to how this activity strengthens their relationship. Compare and contrast how Michael feels about reading aloud to Hanna in the early stages of their relationship to the later stages. What has changed?
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