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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Eindeutschung - The Oven (pp.192-255).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Telek avoid maiming the face of Jasia's boy?
(a) He reminds Jasia of her dead husband.
(b) Telek does not want the boy to have a constant reminder of the war on his face.
(c) The boy is beautiful.
(d) Jasia asks him not to hurt the boy's face.

2. Where does Magda hide the children from the German soldiers?
(a) The secret hidey-hole.
(b) In the woods.
(c) Inside the oven.
(d) Under the floorboards where Magda kept the food.

3. What does the Menorah signify?
(a) That Christ will soon be born.
(b) Christ has been born.
(c) The world is a miracle.
(d) God loves everything and everyone.

4. Why does the priest decide to get the baby for Nelka?
(a) He believes his soul is such a little, worthless one.
(b) It is his way of repenting for all his past sins.
(c) Father Piotr believes he will be redeemed.
(d) The priest wants to show the village he is brave.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What happens on March 11, 1944 to the partisans?

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 Gretel look all around them before they got out of the pile of leaves?

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