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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the Mechanik kill the soldier?
(a) The solider has food.
(b) The Mechanik thinks the children are in danger.
(c) The soldier discovers the Mechanik's presence.
(d) The clothing and boots on the soldier are valuable.

2. Why did Gretel look all around them before they got out of the pile of leaves?
(a) Gretel was making sure there wasn't anyone around.
(b) Gretel was afraid someone heard them.
(c) Gretel was admiring the snow.
(d) Gretel was looking for footprints.

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

4. Why does Nelka call the kerosene "Polish Perfume"?
(a) Kerosene was a traditional scent.
(b) Kerosene was all they had to use for perfume.
(c) Kerosene was used to keep the bugs at bay.
(d) Kerosene was used to keep hunger at bay.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hansel want to look like a Nazi?

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

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

4. What does the Stepmother discover during the raid on the train?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Major escape the front lines in Russia?

2. What does Hansel plan to do instead of farming?

3. What did the Russian partisans call the Stepmother?

4. What did the Stepmother do to win the approval of the Russian partisans when they first met?

5. What explanation is given to the Major on how the children were brought to Magda?

6. Why did Magda take the children to the village?

7. What secret is Basha and Andrzej keeping?

8. How was the supply truck's stop at Magda's to drop the two children off explained?

9. What did the Major think of Gretel when he first interacted with her in the village?

10. What are the Rom?

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