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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Zayde?
(a) Gretel's grandfather.
(b) Gretel's father.
(c) Gretel's mother.
(d) The Mechanik.

3. Where does Telek take Nelka and the baby to hide?
(a) The forest swamp.
(b) Primeval forest where the wild ponies stayed.
(c) The Russian partisan group's hide-out.
(d) The abandoned farm the partisans had burned down.

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

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

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

7. What would have happened to Nelka had she admitted she had gypsy blood?
(a) She would have lost the baby.
(b) The Oberfuhrer would have killed her.
(c) Magda and the children would be killed.
(d) She would have killed herself and her family.

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

9. Who witnesses the priest kill the soldier and the Brown Sister?
(a) Telek.
(b) Hansel.
(c) Nelka.
(d) Wiktor.

10. Where are the Germans taking Magda and the remaining Jews?
(a) Bialystok.
(b) Warsaw.
(c) Birkenau.
(d) Piaski.

11. What makes Magda happy when on the truck, even though she knows she is in trouble with the Germans?
(a) The war was almost over.
(b) Nelka and the baby are safe and gone.
(c) Her brother died a hero.
(d) Hansel and Gretel are safe inside the oven.

12. 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.

13. What does Hansel do to prove to the village children that he is not afraid?
(a) Kisses the flank of a pig.
(b) Fights one of the children.
(c) Touches the pig's bottom.
(d) Suggests a game of war with the village children.

14. Why is Hansel so worried about Gretel's madness?
(a) Magda might want to throw them out.
(b) He does not want to be the responsible one.
(c) The Germans kill crazy people.
(d) The Germans take crazy people to the camps.

15. How does Telek maime Miron and Ania's little girl?
(a) He burns her arm.
(b) Telek cuts her face.
(c) He breaks her leg.
(d) He cuts off her index finger.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one regret of the priest before he dies?

2. What are the revving trucks doing at the camp, Birkenau?

3. The Major saves Gretel's life during the inspection, why?

4. Why does the Oberfuhrer want Nelka's blood?

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

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