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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who speaks with Micha at the train station before he leaves again to search the truth about his Opa?
(a) Mina.
(b) Bernd.
(c) Vati.
(d) Luise.

2. What does Elena believe is her punishment for her husband's crimes?
(a) Racism aimed at her.
(b) The inability to have children.
(c) Her children's early death.
(d) A lifetime of being ostracized.

3. Where does Micha go to search the truth about his Opa?
(a) Minsk.
(b) Grodno.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Moscow.

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

5. Why is Elena angry with Micha?
(a) Micha does not understand her when she takes him to an important site.
(b) Micha says he is not their friend and does not know why he is there.
(c) She wants him to stay longer.
(d) Elena is upset Micha does not speak with Jozef.

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

7. How does Oma feel about Mutti and Vati's Nazi involvement?
(a) She believes they are still good people.
(b) She believes they are in the right.
(c) She believes they are rightfully punished but still loves them.
(d) She condemns them because of it and disowns them.

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

9. What does Kolesnik confess to Micha?
(a) He helped kill Jews during the war.
(b) He nearly killed himself for his actions.
(c) His Opa committed suicide because of his actions.
(d) He and Micha's Opa killed Jews together.

10. How does Jozef describe the reactions of the SS men after a shooting?
(a) Most walk away back into their barracks.
(b) They smoke and laugh.
(c) There are trivial conversations to avoid the silence.
(d) It involves a lot of drinking.

11. What feelings does Micha have for Jozef?
(a) Sadness for what he went through.
(b) Respect for his ability to tell the truth.
(c) Anger for his past.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

14. What secret do the children keep from Oma and Wiebke?
(a) They stole, lied, and cheated on their way to Oma's.
(b) They sent an extra letter to Mutti.
(c) Lore plans to leave with Tomas.
(d) Tomas, their secret brother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What secret is Tomas holding from Lore?

2. What is the family's response to Micha's search?

3. Who is at the center of Micha's mental family tree?

4. Micha and Jozef's first conversation can be described as ____________.

5. What does Lore do to Tomas' belongings before she buries them?

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