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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 is Basha and her husband's secret?
(a) They are Jews.
(b) They have been taking rations for a dead child.
(c) Basha is not a Catholic.
(d) They know about Magda.

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

3. According to the Russian partisan leader, what is the first job of the partisan group?
(a) To help the Russians fighting.
(b) To kill German soldiers whenever they find them.
(c) To survive.
(d) To cover all their tracks so no one knows they were there.

4. How does the Major honor Gretel during her first visit to the village?
(a) He allows her to pass out sugar.
(b) He says she is almost mannered.
(c) He allows her to have a ration card.
(d) He gives her a candy.

5. How do the village men justify that Telek is short on the draw?
(a) Telek is the strongest and quietest.
(b) They say Telek was never one of them anyway.
(c) Telek is not a father, so it will be easy for him.
(d) They believe they should not have to hurt their own children.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nelka confess while she is in labor?

3. Why does the Mechanik kill the soldier?

4. Why was the old woman, named Magda, feeding the birds?

5. What does the Stepmother discover during the raid on the train?

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