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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. What are the Kulturtrager?
(a) Beautiful people.
(b) German soldiers.
(c) Bringers of culture.
(d) Polish elite.

2. What does Magda have to teach the children?
(a) How to cook their own food.
(b) How to be Catholic.
(c) How to say the rosary.
(d) Family history.

3. When the Oberfuhrer arrives, what does the Major find offensive about the SS soldier's medals?
(a) The medals are better than the Major's.
(b) All the medals are fake.
(c) The medals are all for physical fitness.
(d) The Major has the same medals.

4. 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 is an expert bomb maker.
(d) He looks forward to blowing up Germans.

5. What is Magda's secret?
(a) Magda is the Priest's sister.
(b) Magda is part Gypsy.
(c) Magda is not a Catholic.
(d) Magda is Nelka's grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the little boy admire about the Nazis?

2. How does the Major honor Gretel during her first visit to the village?

3. Why did the boy, now named Hansel, leave breadcrumbs in the forest?

4. What relationship does Nelka have with Father Piotr?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Magda plan to say that would cover Hansel's circumcision?

3. What did Germans use to travel from village to village?

4. What news does Telek deliver about the Oberfuhrer and the Brown Sister?

5. What did Germans do to people they arrested?

6. What does Kulturtrager mean?

7. How did the Jew that was helping the Russian partisans die when they raided the farm?

8. What did the old Mayor's office function as in the village?

9. What secret is Basha and Andrzej keeping?

10. What are the Rom?

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