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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. Why does Telek believe Nelka's baby will come sooner than December?
(a) The baby is at full term.
(b) The baby is not healthy.
(c) Nelka is undernourished.
(d) Nelka is not sure of her actual due date.

2. Germans leave bodies where they are killed, why?
(a) The ground is frozen and they cannot bury the bodies.
(b) There are too many bodies to bury.
(c) As a warning to the Poles.
(d) Germans do not believe in burring the dead.

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

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

5. 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) She puts Gretel in an old chicken cage.
(c) She loosely ties Gretel down to the platform.
(d) Magda has Hansel pile logs up around the platform.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is Gretel's age disguised in the photograph?

3. Why do Magda, Hansel and Gretel wash with kerosene?

4. Why is Magda nervous about the children being in town?

5. Telek tells Gretel what you must do you do if you want to see the animals of the forest. What was it?

(see the answer key)

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