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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Leaving - the Witch (pp.256-297).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What snaps Gretel out of her mental dysfunction?
(a) Hansel running toward the gunfire.
(b) Hansel has given up on living.
(c) The soldiers killing each other.
(d) Seeing the Germans and their uniforms.

2. Why do Hansel and Gretel need to bathe in the river?
(a) The weather is warm enough to bathe.
(b) They need to kill all the lice.
(c) They want to clean their clothes.
(d) Both children are filthy.

3. How does Magda and Hansel help Gretel get better?
(a) They both wail and keen making the dark spirits think Gretel is dead.
(b) They burn all of her clothes and her doll.
(c) Hansel and Magda have to switch money.
(d) Hansel sells Gretel to Magda and tells the dark spirits that Gretel is dead, the girl is nobody.

4. What is Magda's secret?
(a) Magda is Nelka's grandmother.
(b) Magda is not a Catholic.
(c) Magda is the Priest's sister.
(d) Magda is part Gypsy.

5. Why does Hansel get so angry when Gretel is brought back after the assault?
(a) Hansel knows Gretel was injured.
(b) He wanted to go see the wild ponies with Gretel.
(c) He is hungy.
(d) He is kicked out of the cabin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the Mechanik, Hansel, and Gretel become themselves again?

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

4. Who witnesses the priest kill the soldier and the Brown Sister?

5. Why have the Mechanik and the stepmother not had sex?

(see the answer key)

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