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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 does Magda have to teach the children?
(a) How to say the rosary.
(b) How to cook their own food.
(c) How to be Catholic.
(d) Family history.

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

3. What does Nelka confess while she is in labor?
(a) She left her husband for Telek.
(b) She is in love with Telek.
(c) Her husband is alive.
(d) Telek is the baby's father.

4. Why does the Russian's group attack the farm?
(a) They are taking over the farm.
(b) They want the food.
(c) The wife of the farmer is helping the Nazis.
(d) The farmer is a Nazi.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Major not fighting on the front lines?

2. Why did the boy, now named Hansel, leave breadcrumbs in the forest?

3. What are the Kulturtrager?

4. When the partisans raid the farm, what is the purpose of the hut beside the river?

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

(see the answer key)

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