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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 saves the children's father from being killed by the band of partisans?
(a) The father is spared because he is a mechanic.
(b) The father is with the woman, the Stepmother.
(c) The father has a motorcycle.
(d) The Stepmother threatens the Russian partisans with the gun.

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

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

4. Why does Nelka collect all the Russian fliers that are dropped from the sky?
(a) It makes great toilet paper.
(b) It cannot be seen by the German soldiers.
(c) The paper can be reused for writing.
(d) She wants to show the other villagers.

5. Why do Magda, Hansel and Gretel wash with kerosene?
(a) Kerosene helps to get all the dirt out.
(b) Kerosene keeps them warm.
(c) Kerosene gets rid of lice.
(d) Kerosene was used as soap.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did Gretel study the old woman's clothes when the two children came across the hut?

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

4. Why does Magda take the children to the Major in the village?

5. When the Oberfuhrer arrives, what does the Major find offensive about the SS soldier's medals?

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