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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lore do to Tomas' belongings before she buries them?
(a) Burns them to ashes.
(b) Cuts off a piece for her to keep.
(c) Smells them.
(d) Washes them.

2. What is Micha afraid to tell the person he is staying with?
(a) That he is part Jewish.
(b) That he is in search of Opa's true background.
(c) That he is a schoolteacher.
(d) That he is looking for his Opa.

3. Where do Lore and her siblings presume Vati to be?
(a) With Mutti in a camp.
(b) In another country.
(c) In prison.
(d) Hiding in a rural area.

4. What do the children learn about Mutti?
(a) She is starving at the camp.
(b) Mutti wil be released soon.
(c) She remains healthy at the camp.
(d) Mutti is in a hard labor camp.

5. Where does Tomas go when the children leave to Oma?
(a) Lives in an abandoned house.
(b) Stays in a church.
(c) Stays in a Red Cross refugee shelter.
(d) Sleeps at an unused train station.

6. What does Elena show Micha?
(a) The site of the Jewish killings.
(b) The grave of her brother, who was also an SS man.
(c) Jozef's old photos.
(d) Photos of his Opa during the war.

7. What is Micha's relationship like with his Oma as he learns more about his Opa?
(a) He is angry she never told him the truth.
(b) He pities her.
(c) He refuses to speak with her.
(d) He feels closer to her.

8. Why does Lore stop seeing Tomas?
(a) His angry response to her.
(b) Oma is suspicious of her whereabouts.
(c) Wiebke tells her it is shameful.
(d) Lore discovers his secret and is appalled.

9. Who writes the letter to Mutti?
(a) Leisel.
(b) Lore.
(c) Oma.
(d) Everyone writes a little something.

10. What are the SS men doing in the photos displayed in the museum Micha visits?
(a) Smoking and laughing in front of dead bodies.
(b) They are in battle on the war front.
(c) Shoveling piles of ashes.
(d) Laughing and playing with their children like his Opa.

11. How does Lore reunite with Oma?
(a) The Meyers see Lore searching and ask if she needs help.
(b) Wiebke recognizes Lore.
(c) Tomas finds Oma and brings Lore back.
(d) Oma recognizes Juri first.

12. How does Micha confuse Oma?
(a) Micha visits on a non-regular day.
(b) Micha talks to her about Opa as if he is a stranger.
(c) Micha takes her to a new place to talk.
(d) Micha confronts her about her history.

13. How does Lore discover the truth behind the pictures circling around Germany?
(a) She reads off a man's newspaper on the tram.
(b) From two women on the tram.
(c) Oma tells her the truth.
(d) Lore asks Tomas about them.

14. Who does Micha cry for when he cries about Opa's past?
(a) The innocent people Opa killed.
(b) Opa.
(c) Himself.
(d) His family.

15. Who comforts Lore as she cries in bed?
(a) Oma.
(b) Juri.
(c) Leisel.
(d) Wiebke.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Andrej get angry with Micha?

2. Whose grave does Micha visit?

3. How does Jozef describe the reactions of the SS men after a shooting?

4. What does Vati wish for concerning his family's connection to World War II?

5. What are Tomas' feelings after Jochen dies?

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