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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Sugar - December, 1943 (pp.66-129).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Magda do to keep Gretel from falling or leaving the cabin when she is sick with fever?
(a) She puts Gretel in an old chicken cage.
(b) Magda has Hansel pile logs up around the platform.
(c) Bundles Gretel in blankets so she cannot move.
(d) She loosely ties Gretel down to the platform.

2. Why has no one from the village reported Father Piotr and Magda for being Rom?
(a) The villagers just hadn't yet the opportunity.
(b) The villagers were afraid the woman, Magda, was a witch.
(c) The villagers didn't know they were Rom.
(d) The man was a priest.

3. What does Magda miss the most about the village?
(a) Oranges.
(b) The smells of the pecans and peaches.
(c) The smells of cooking.
(d) The soup.

4. What saves the children's father from being killed by the band of partisans?
(a) The Stepmother threatens the Russian partisans with the gun.
(b) The father is with the woman, the Stepmother.
(c) The father has a motorcycle.
(d) The father is spared because he is a mechanic.

5. What does Magda do with peroxide?
(a) Cleans a wound.
(b) Peroxide helps with Magda's arthritis.
(c) Bleach Hansel's hair.
(d) Gets rid of lice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to all the German horses?

2. Why do the village men think the Major cannot rest in the evening like a normal person?

3. Why did the girl, now named Gretel, insist on sleeping under the leaves?

4. What do the Russian partisans say will eventually kill all the Germans?

5. How does Magda and Hansel help Gretel get better?

(see the answer key)

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