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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) Bundles Gretel in blankets so she cannot move.
(b) Magda has Hansel pile logs up around the platform.
(c) She loosely ties Gretel down to the platform.
(d) She puts Gretel in an old chicken cage.

2. What is the Hour of the Wolf?
(a) The wolves can be caught during that specific hour.
(b) The time when the wolves are out hunting.
(c) The darkest, often hopeless moment before dawn.
(d) It is when the moon begins to set.

3. What is the S.S. Oberfuhrer and Brown Sister's purpose in the village?
(a) The Brown Sister is taking girls for the Sisterhood, while the Oberfuhrer is taking boys for the army.
(b) The children who are unhealthy and imperfect will be sent to the concentration camps.
(c) They want to train the children to be soldiers.
(d) They are taking the children who are blonde and blue eyed.

4. Why do the children tell Magda they like turnips?
(a) So that Magda will continue to feed them.
(b) Becuase turnips are soft and mushy.
(c) Because Magda likes them.
(d) Turnips remind them of home.

5. Why is it hard for Gretel to know what day it is?
(a) Gretel has lost count of the days.
(b) There is no clock or calendar.
(c) Magda does not go to the village regularly.
(d) Gretel cannot tell time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the father, now named the Mechanik, have to do to prove his loyalty?

2. What was the third book Gretel's father was able to save when they were forced from their home?

3. Why does the Mechanik kill the soldier?

4. Why is the stepmother so interested in the burning barn?

5. What is Gretel able to read?

(see the answer key)

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