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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 not healthy.
(b) The baby is at full term.
(c) Nelka is not sure of her actual due date.
(d) Nelka is undernourished.

2. Why does the Mechanik kill the soldier?
(a) The soldier discovers the Mechanik's presence.
(b) The Mechanik thinks the children are in danger.
(c) The solider has food.
(d) The clothing and boots on the soldier are valuable.

3. What does the Stepmother discover during the raid on the train?
(a) She discovers a car full of ammunition and guns.
(b) She learns the Mechanic would take his children.
(c) She finds the bodies of many dead Jews.
(d) The Stepmother learns the children are safe.

4. Why is the Mechanik happy to make a bomb?
(a) He is happy to be making something.
(b) He is happy that he would blow up Russians.
(c) He is an expert bomb maker.
(d) He looks forward to blowing up Germans.

5. What secret did the little boy need to keep?
(a) His name.
(b) He was circumcised.
(c) His age.
(d) He had a father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gretel able to read?

2. On one especially cold night, what does Lydka do for the partisans?

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

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

5. What do the Russian partisans say will eventually kill all the Germans?

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