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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hansel want to get out of the village so quickly when he is kicked out of Halina's?
(a) He is afraid Halina's aunt will get him in trouble.
(b) He does not want to cry in front of the other children.
(c) He needs to get back to the cabin before it begins to snow.
(d) He is afraid of the Major.

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

3. What is ordered to happen to Gretel at the age of 13 when she is inspected?
(a) She will be made to marry.
(b) She will be sterilized.
(c) She will be sent to Germany.
(d) She will be killed.

4. What does the oven worker think about the moving air above the furnaces?
(a) It shows the power of the Germans.
(b) It is the souls of the Jews going back to God.
(c) It is the screams of all the dead Jews.
(d) It shows that the furnaces are extremely hot.

5. Why are the mentally defective killed by the Germans?
(a) The mentally defective are a burden.
(b) They are potentially dangerous.
(c) The Oberfuhrer hates crazy people.
(d) The Aryan bloodline has to be perfect.

6. What happens on March 11, 1944 to the partisans?
(a) They are no longer partisans.
(b) The Russians defeat the Germans.
(c) They plant soup tureens to look like land mines.
(d) They find food and canned meat attached to a parachute.

7. What suspicion does Wiktor have confirmed during the inspection of Hansel and Gretel?
(a) That the Major likes Gretel.
(b) That Gretel has been raped.
(c) That Hansel is a Jew.
(d) That the Oberfuhrer speaks Polish.

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

9. What does Gretel think she is doing as Telek brings her back to the cabin?
(a) Going to see the wild ponies.
(b) Eating an orange from her grandfather.
(c) Going to see a bison.
(d) Going to her garden.

10. What does Gretel promise Telek before she goes into the woods alone?
(a) Gretel promises not to go into the woods twice.
(b) She promises to tell him if she sees the ponies.
(c) Gretel promises not to sing while alone in the woods.
(d) She promises to take Hansel.

11. What does the Russian order done to the German soldiers?
(a) He steals all of their clothes and shoes.
(b) He orders their heads cut off and placed at their feet.
(c) He kills two of the soldiers and beheads one.
(d) He orders them all shot.

12. How do Sister Rosa and the Oberfuhrer keep Nelka quiet about the transfusions?
(a) Sister Rosa takes Nelka's baby.
(b) The Oberfuhrer threatens to kill the children and Magda.
(c) They threaten that the Major will be told to kill the villagers.
(d) They threaten that Nelka will be sent to the prison camps.

13. Gretel is not right in the mind after the rape. What does Gretel expect Telek to show her?
(a) The wolves.
(b) The boar.
(c) The ponies.
(d) The bison.

14. What is one thing Telek knows he will never touch again after injuring the children?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Vodka.
(c) Turnips.
(d) Raspberries.

15. How does Hansel endanger himself, Gretel and Magda during his unauthorized trips to the village?
(a) Hansel shows Halina the secret hiding place.
(b) He steals potatoes from Halina's aunt.
(c) He goes back to the village to play with Halina.
(d) He tells Halin about the secret hiding place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the priest hear first while waiting to be captured?

2. Why is Nelka chosen to provide blood to the Oberfuhrer?

3. How does the Major get the Oberfuhrer to back off the idea of killing one-third of the village?

4. What does Gretel think Magda is trying to do to her and Hansel?

5. What would happen to the man if the Germans know his thoughts about the heat rising from the furnaces?

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