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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Lore notice when the children take a picture together?
(a) They look like thin and scraggly strangers.
(b) No one is smiling.
(c) They look healthier than they feel.
(d) They have darkened under the sun during their trip.

6. What news does Mutti give about Vati in Section 6?
(a) He is out of contact.
(b) He is safe.
(c) He is in a Russian prison.
(d) He is dead.

7. Where do Lore and her siblings sleep regularly when they reach their destination?
(a) In the cellar.
(b) In Oma's one room house.
(c) At the Meyers' house.
(d) In Wiebke's old room.

8. What bothers Micha about Mina's background?
(a) Micha believes she considers herself Turkish first.
(b) Mina is part Jewish.
(c) Mina does not consider herself German.
(d) Mina does not care about the German culture.

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

10. Who else wants to know the truth if Micha finds it?
(a) Vati.
(b) Mina.
(c) Mutti.
(d) Luise.

11. 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) For all to deny the family's involvement in World War II.
(c) That Micha learns the truth and reveal it to Mutti.
(d) That the pain stops with his generation.

12. What surprise does Micha learn about Opa?
(a) Opa is not his Mutti's real father.
(b) Opa and Oma were never legally married.
(c) Opa is part Jewish.
(d) Opa was a member of the Waffen-SS in World War II.

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

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

15. What does Mina try to remind Micha about?
(a) That Opa killed Jews in the war.
(b) That his family is not responsible for Opa's actions.
(c) That his Oma still loves him.
(d) That Opa is still the same grandfather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Micha's relationship like with his Oma as he learns more about his Opa?

2. What are the SS men doing in the photos displayed in the museum Micha visits?

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

4. What is Mutti's response to Jochen missing from the picture?

5. What secret is Tomas holding from Lore?

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