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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What opportunity is Helmut given in 1945?
(a) He shows Gladigau his documentation of Berlin.
(b) He gains real employment at the train station.
(c) He opens the shop under his name.
(d) He is accepted by the army.

2. What does Lore leave behind when Lore and the children leave a woman's home?
(a) Some money.
(b) Some of their food for the woman and her child.
(c) Her mother's earrings.
(d) Diapers and extra clothing.

3. What causes Helmut to smile for the first time in a photo?
(a) He meets his parents again after a long time.
(b) He is a soldier.
(c) He is recently named Berlin's historian.
(d) He meets with Gladigau again after a long time.

4. What runs through Helmut's mind as he looks for his parents after the bombings?
(a) The possibility that they might be dead.
(b) That they might be outside of Berlin.
(c) That he will work harder for them if he gets to see them again.
(d) To not let his parents see him cry.

5. Where do Lore and her siblings sleep on their second night?
(a) Outside on the ground.
(b) In a barn.
(c) On a cart.
(d) In a young man's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the farmer's wife ask if Lore's mother is still around?

2. What images of veterans are described in Section 4?

3. Why does Lore bury the last of Vati's pictures?

4. What is Lore's role in the family?

5. How does Helmut feel about the veterans at the train station?

Short Essay Questions

1. The new train station guard does not like Helmut immediately. Only after knowing Helmut's current situation, does he help Helmut. Why does the train station guard act this way? What does that say about the bombings in Berlin?

2. The Third Reich is at its height when Helmut is a teenager. How does this age and Helmut's life affect his acceptance and loyalty to the Third Reich?

3. Helmut finally gets to join the army. What does this imply about the state of Germany at this point in the war?

4. As Lore and her siblings walk on, some seem suspicious of their backgrounds but people usually help them anyway. Why do some people look at Lore's family with disdain but eventually help?

5. Mutti tries to burn the badges but they do not burn all the way. Lore tries to throw them deep into the river, but buries them in the bushes when this does not work. What do the badges and the efforts to rid them symbolize?

6. Helmut has the opportunity to work as a soldier five years into the war. What are Helmut's thoughts and feelings towards being a soldier?

7. Tomas helps Lore and her family out of trouble and follows them. Why? What does he gain from the situation? Is he just being nice?

8. During one of Helmut's walks around the city, he encounters the SS collecting and trucking the gypsies away. What is Helmut's reaction to this event?

9. When Lore offers to buy food from the woman who gives her bread and milk, she asks if Lore has anything other than money. Why does the woman not prefer money?

10. Although Seiffert does not say much about the farmers, what are the implied feelings of the farmers?

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