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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. Where does Michael go in the beginning of Part 2, Chapter 14?

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

3. What is the daughter like?

4. What has Michael noticed about Hanna's voice at the end of Part 3, Chapter 9?

5. Who does Michael meet at the cemetery?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the prison warden, and the exchange she and Michael have when Michael comes to the prison and finds out Hanna has committed suicide.

3. How do the Michael's feelings about the trial become "awakened" in Chapter 3?

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

5. How does Michael react after reading the letter in Chapter 7?

6. What happens to Michael when he visits the cemetery in Chapter 3?

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

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

9. What does Michael dream about on the train from Boston to New York, on the way to visit the daughter from the trial?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

During the trials it is discovered that Hanna had "favorite" prisoners, young women who were too weak to work, whom she had read to her much like Michael. What can the reader draw from this discovery? How does Michael feel about this? How could this revelation change the way in which the reader sees Hanna?

Essay Topic 2

How does Hanna act as a "bully" in the early stages of the relationship she has with Michael? Why does Michael feel he has no choice but to give in to Hanna and her demands? How does this set the tone for Hanna's behavior during her trial?

Essay Topic 3

In Part 3, Chapter 1, Michael describes a "German fate." What is the German fate? How does Michael equate the pain of his love for Hanna to his own German fate? How does their relationship parallel the generational conflict in Germany?

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