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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Telek tells Gretel what you must do you do if you want to see the animals of the forest. What was it?
(a) You must keep the wind in your face.
(b) The wind must be blowing from behind you.
(c) You need to stand very still and not move.
(d) You need to make sure there is no wind and stand still.

2. What does Magda miss the most about the village?
(a) The soup.
(b) Oranges.
(c) The smells of the pecans and peaches.
(d) The smells of cooking.

3. Why is Magda nervous about the children being in town?
(a) Magda does not think Gretel and Hansel will pass as her family.
(b) Gretel is afraid she will make a mistake.
(c) The priest might have second thoughts and turn them in.
(d) Magda is afraid the boy will forget his story.

4. What is Basha and her husband's secret?
(a) Basha is not a Catholic.
(b) They know about Magda.
(c) They are Jews.
(d) They have been taking rations for a dead child.

5. How does the Major honor Gretel during her first visit to the village?
(a) He allows her to pass out sugar.
(b) He says she is almost mannered.
(c) He allows her to have a ration card.
(d) He gives her a candy.

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

7. Why does Hansel want to look like a Nazi?
(a) Nazi's have guns.
(b) Nazi's are never told what to do.
(c) Nazi's all have clean uniforms.
(d) Nazi's all have blonde hair.

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

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

10. Who are the Rom?
(a) Russian Revolutionaries.
(b) Roman Jews.
(c) Romanian Gypsies.
(d) German Nazis.

11. According to the Stepmother, why is it not a bad thing to be killed by a horse?
(a) The horses are big and death would be instant.
(b) The Jew never knew what hit him.
(c) It is better than being murdered by a Nazi.
(d) It is a death unspoiled by any ideas.

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

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

14. Why does Nelka call the kerosene "Polish Perfume"?
(a) Kerosene was a traditional scent.
(b) Kerosene was used to keep hunger at bay.
(c) Kerosene was all they had to use for perfume.
(d) Kerosene was used to keep the bugs at bay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a car arrives at the village, what does that car signal to the villagers?

2. What relationship does Nelka have with Father Piotr?

3. Why do the Mechanik, and the other partisans, cover their urine with snow?

4. How did the man hide his two children to escape Bialystok?

5. What does Magda use to help Gretel's thirst when she is sick?

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