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

2. How do the village men determine who will save the children?
(a) The men elect Telek to do it because he does not have children.
(b) They determine it has to be a man without children.
(c) There are only 6 children, so each father will save his own.
(d) The men draw straws.

3. Why does Telek avoid maiming the face of Jasia's boy?
(a) The boy is beautiful.
(b) Telek does not want the boy to have a constant reminder of the war on his face.
(c) Jasia asks him not to hurt the boy's face.
(d) He reminds Jasia of her dead husband.

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 has a motorcycle.
(c) The father is with the woman, the Stepmother.
(d) The father is spared because he is a mechanic.

5. Telek tells Gretel what you must do you do if you want to see the animals of the forest. What was it?
(a) You need to stand very still and not move.
(b) You need to make sure there is no wind and stand still.
(c) The wind must be blowing from behind you.
(d) You must keep the wind in your face.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the Major give Hansel candy when he is playing with the village children?

2. Why do the Mechanik, and the other partisans, cover their urine with snow?

3. Germans leave bodies where they are killed, why?

4. What do the Russian and partisans find the Germans transporting?

5. How does the Major honor Gretel during her first visit to the village?

(see the answer key)

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