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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What confuses Lore when they are close to Oma's?
(a) Tomas tells Lore that Oma may be in prison too.
(b) No one seems to recognize Oma's name.
(c) She cannot recognize the city with so many bombed areas.
(d) Oma is said to not live there anymore.

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

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

4. What does Vati wish for concerning his family's connection to World War II?
(a) That the truth be told throughout history so all can learn from it.
(b) That Micha learns the truth and reveal it to Mutti.
(c) For all to deny the family's involvement in World War II.
(d) That the pain stops with his generation.

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

6. What is Oma's demeanor like?
(a) Haphazard.
(b) Constant showers of hugs and kisses.
(c) Businesslike.
(d) Paranoid.

7. Whose grave does Micha visit?
(a) Elena's.
(b) Oma's.
(c) Opa's.
(d) Jozef's.

8. What is Kolesnik's role during the war?
(a) He assigned numbers and letters to the Jews.
(b) He burned the piles of bodies.
(c) Waffen-SS man.
(d) Translator.

9. What secret is Tomas holding from Lore?
(a) He stole the papers from a dead Jew.
(b) Tomas plans to leave without saying goodbye.
(c) Tomas knows where Vati is.
(d) Tomas killed a man for the papers.

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

11. How does Jochen die?
(a) He is captured by American soldiers.
(b) He drowns in the river.
(c) He falls out of a hayloft.
(d) The Russians shoot him.

12. Who does Micha stay with during his time away?
(a) His Oma.
(b) Andrej.
(c) Jozef.
(d) Elena.

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

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

15. What does Micha bring back for Elena?
(a) Photos of Elena and Jozef.
(b) Photos of his Oma and Opa.
(c) Photos of Mina and Dilan.
(d) Photos of his daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret do the children keep from Oma and Wiebke?

2. What is Kolesnik's reply when Micha asks if he is sad?

3. Who does Micha cry for when he cries about Opa's past?

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

5. How does Micha feel about himself?

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