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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Russian partisan leader, what is the first job of the partisan group?
(a) To cover all their tracks so no one knows they were there.
(b) To help the Russians fighting.
(c) To kill German soldiers whenever they find them.
(d) To survive.

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

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

4. Why does Magda take the children to the Major in the village?
(a) To get food rations.
(b) To show the children the village.
(c) To show that they are not Jews.
(d) She wants the Major to see Gretel.

5. According to the Witch on page 1, what story has been told over and over again full of lies?
(a) Nazi Invasion.
(b) World War II.
(c) Wicked Stepmother.
(d) Hansel and Gretel.

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 father has a motorcycle.
(d) The Stepmother threatens the Russian partisans with the gun.

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

8. What relationship does Nelka have with Father Piotr?
(a) Nelka is his grand-daughter.
(b) Nelka is the pirest's daughter.
(c) Nelka is Magda's daughter, his niece.
(d) Nelka is his cousin.

9. Why is the Mechanik happy to make a bomb?
(a) He is happy that he would blow up Russians.
(b) He is happy to be making something.
(c) He looks forward to blowing up Germans.
(d) He is an expert bomb maker.

10. Why does Telek believe Nelka's baby will come sooner than December?
(a) The baby is not healthy.
(b) Nelka is undernourished.
(c) Nelka is not sure of her actual due date.
(d) The baby is at full term.

11. Why does the Russian's group target the train?
(a) They want to kill the German soldiers.
(b) There are captured Russians on the train.
(c) It has ammunition and supplies.
(d) The train is carrying Jews to concentration camps.

12. What was the woman, Magda, terrified of?
(a) Leaving the motorcycle behind.
(b) The dogs being set on them.
(c) The Nazis catching them.
(d) The children being left behind.

13. What secret was the Stepmother keeping from the father of Hansel and Gretel?
(a) The Stepmother was married once.
(b) The Stepmother was afraid of the dogs tracking them.
(c) The Stepmother was afraid of the unfamiliar forest.
(d) The Stepmother's baby was killed by the Nazis.

14. What animal does Gretel and Hansel get to see with Telek in their fist venture out into the forest?
(a) Wild horses.
(b) Wild boar.
(c) A wolf.
(d) An elk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Kulturtrager?

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

3. What is Magda's secret?

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

5. What happens to all the German horses?

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