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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. Who is the Mayor told to trust when he confides in someone before the trial?
(a) All of these.
(b) His God.
(c) His friends.
(d) Himself.

2. What is the goal of the invading soldiers?
(a) To recruit more soldiers.
(b) To confiscate the coal.
(c) To protect the borders.
(d) To prevent a resistance.

3. What is the Mayor's wife most worried about when the soldiers are in her house?
(a) Her image.
(b) The war.
(c) Protocol.
(d) Her safety.

4. Who ends up sitting in judgment for the murderer?
(a) Morden.
(b) Correll.
(c) Orden.
(d) Winter.

5. How many lieutenants are on the panel to judge Alex?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Mayor's wife called?

2. What does Bentick smoke?

3. What country does this book take place in?

4. Who is Loft said to be the opposite of?

5. What does Lanser say war changes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tonder dream about when Christmas rolls around?

2. What does Tonder think of Prackle's pin-up?

3. Why does the Mayor say he feels like he is in a balancing act between the soldiers and the town?

4. What does Lanser say about the affects of war when it is over?

5. What does Lanser beg the Mayor to do when he first invades the town and why?

6. What does Correll give the soldiers in his town at the beginning of the book?

7. What is Alex's defense at his trial?

8. What does the Mayor say he will have to do before making any firm decisions with Lanser?

9. How does Lanser request his meeting with the Mayor?

10. What does Joseph say to cheer up Annie before the trial?

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