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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Hansel and Gretel need in order to stay with Magda?
(a) Citizen papers.
(b) Baptismal certificates.
(c) Polish papers.
(d) Birth certificates.

2. Why is the Man, woman and two children riding motorcycle?
(a) The are trying to get over the border.
(b) They are trying to escape the Nazis.
(c) They have broken the law.
(d) They are fleeing the Ghetto.

3. 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 not healthy.
(c) Nelka is undernourished.
(d) The baby is at full term.

4. What was the third book Gretel's father was able to save when they were forced from their home?
(a) Torah.
(b) Fairy-tales.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Atlas.

5. Why is it hard for Gretel to know what day it is?
(a) Gretel cannot tell time.
(b) There is no clock or calendar.
(c) Magda does not go to the village regularly.
(d) Gretel has lost count of the days.

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

7. Why do the Mechanik, and the other partisans, cover their urine with snow?
(a) So the dogs will not be able to smell it.
(b) To prevent anyone from being offended.
(c) To hide evidence that people was there.
(d) He does not want anyone to step in it.

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

9. Who is Jacobe?
(a) A chess player.
(b) Feliks' Jewish friend.
(c) One of the men executed.
(d) Jocobe is Felik's last name.

10. What secret did the little boy need to keep?
(a) He had a father.
(b) His age.
(c) He was circumcised.
(d) His name.

11. When a car arrives at the village, what does that car signal to the villagers?
(a) Something bad is going to happen to someone.
(b) SS soldiers are coming.
(c) They are all going to be taken away.
(d) There is a change in leadership.

12. How do the village men justify that Telek is short on the draw?
(a) Telek is not a father, so it will be easy for him.
(b) They say Telek was never one of them anyway.
(c) Telek is the strongest and quietest.
(d) They believe they should not have to hurt their own children.

13. When did Hansel throw his luck away?
(a) When Hansel crossed the line the old woman drew.
(b) When Hansel threw his breadcrumbs on the ground.
(c) When Magda stole a button off Hansel's coat.
(d) When Hansel stole the bread given to the birds.

14. Why does the Major take a liking to Gretel when she is first brought to the village?
(a) Gretel understands German.
(b) She knows what Kulturtrager meant.
(c) She reminds him of his sister.
(d) She is from Germany.

15. Why did the boy, now named Hansel, leave breadcrumbs in the forest?
(a) It was his right do with his bread what he wanted.
(b) The bread was stale and no longer edible.
(c) He wanted to leave a trail for his stepmother.
(d) He was not hungry and wanted to leave a trail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Kulturtrager?

2. Why was the old woman, named Magda, feeding the birds?

3. Why does the Russian's group attack the farm?

4. Why is the Mechanik happy to make a bomb?

5. What secret was the Stepmother keeping from the father of Hansel and Gretel?

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