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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Gretel's mind go after the rape?
(a) She imagines she is with her Zayde.
(b) Gretel thinks of Hansel and Magda.
(c) She thinks she is in a garden.
(d) Gretel's mind goes blank.

2. What does Gretel think Magda is trying to do to her and Hansel?
(a) She thinks Magda is trying to cook them.
(b) Gretel believes Magda is going to give them to the Germans.
(c) She believes Magda is trying to save them.
(d) Gretel thinks she is trying to fatten them up to eat.

3. What does the priest hear first while waiting to be captured?
(a) He learns of his death sentence.
(b) He learns what the Germans do to the children they take away.
(c) The Russian army advancing toward the village.
(d) The German army firing on the neighboring village.

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

5. Who shoots the rapists?
(a) The Mechanik.
(b) Telek.
(c) Magda.
(d) The Stepmother.

6. Where does Magda hide the children from the German soldiers?
(a) Under the floorboards where Magda kept the food.
(b) The secret hidey-hole.
(c) Inside the oven.
(d) In the woods.

7. 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) The Oberfuhrer threatens to kill the children and Magda.
(c) They threaten that Nelka will be sent to the prison camps.
(d) Sister Rosa takes Nelka's baby.

8. 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 needs to get back to the cabin before it begins to snow.
(c) He does not want to cry in front of the other children.
(d) He is afraid of the Major.

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

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

11. Magda trusts Hansel with what secret?
(a) To take care of Gretel.
(b) Money to keep safe.
(c) Her secret hiding place.
(d) She tells him about Father Poitr and Nelka.

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

13. What does Father Piotr do after he sends Hansel away from the village?
(a) He starts drinking again.
(b) Father Piotr heads toward Telek's to stop him.
(c) The priest kills two people and steals the baby.
(d) He takes the baby to Nelka.

14. What does Hansel do after he hears Telek tell Magda of his plans?
(a) Hansel tells Magda they need to go hide right away.
(b) Hansel tries to tell the priest.
(c) He runs to tell Nelka so she can stop him.
(d) He takes Gretel and goes to the hidey-hole.

15. Where does Hansel go when he is kicked out of the cabin?
(a) He stays in the clearing around the hut.
(b) To the village.
(c) to the secret hidey-hole.
(d) Out in the woods to where Gretel had gone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the women helping Magda think is happening as they are ushered underground?

2. What does Gretel promise Telek before she goes into the woods alone?

3. Who does the Oberfuhrer get to take him to Magda and the children?

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

5. What does Gretel tell Hansel and Magda she wants?

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