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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ice Storm - Bones (pp.130-191).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Germans leave bodies where they are killed, why?
(a) The ground is frozen and they cannot bury the bodies.
(b) There are too many bodies to bury.
(c) As a warning to the Poles.
(d) Germans do not believe in burring the dead.

2. Why is the stepmother so interested in the burning barn?
(a) The stepmother grew up around horses.
(b) She is making sure that none of the farmer's conspirators escape.
(c) She loves horses and wants to know if they are all going to die.
(d) She wants to go in and save them but the Mechanik will not let her.

3. Why did the girl, now named Gretel, insist on sleeping under the leaves?
(a) It would make them warmer.
(b) Hansel wanted to pretend they were rabbits.
(c) It reminded her of their Uncle.
(d) They needed to be hidden.

4. Why does the Major give Hansel candy when he is playing with the village children?
(a) He knows all about the German army.
(b) Hansel salutes him properly.
(c) Hansel is Gretel's brother.
(d) Hansel wins the game of solider.

5. Why has no one from the village reported Father Piotr and Magda for being Rom?
(a) The villagers just hadn't yet the opportunity.
(b) The villagers didn't know they were Rom.
(c) The villagers were afraid the woman, Magda, was a witch.
(d) The man was a priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Hour of the Wolf?

2. How do the village men justify that Telek is short on the draw?

3. Why does Hansel want to get out of the village so quickly when he is kicked out of Halina's?

4. What does the Russian order done to the German soldiers?

5. What was the woman, Magda, terrified of?

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