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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. When a car arrives at the village, what does that car signal to the villagers?
(a) SS soldiers are coming.
(b) They are all going to be taken away.
(c) There is a change in leadership.
(d) Something bad is going to happen to someone.

2. Why does the Major take a liking to Gretel when she is first brought to the village?
(a) She knows what Kulturtrager meant.
(b) Gretel understands German.
(c) She is from Germany.
(d) She reminds him of his sister.

3. What was the woman, Magda, terrified of?
(a) The Nazis catching them.
(b) The dogs being set on them.
(c) The children being left behind.
(d) Leaving the motorcycle behind.

4. Why did the girl, now named Gretel, insist on sleeping under the leaves?
(a) Hansel wanted to pretend they were rabbits.
(b) They needed to be hidden.
(c) It reminded her of their Uncle.
(d) It would make them warmer.

5. What is Gretel able to read?
(a) Polish, German, and French.
(b) Gretel is not able to read.
(c) A little Polish.
(d) German and French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Basha and her husband's secret?

2. Why is the Man, woman and two children riding motorcycle?

3. What does Nelka confess while she is in labor?

4. Why do Magda, Hansel and Gretel wash with kerosene?

5. How do the village men justify that Telek is short on the draw?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Magda introduce the children to the Major?

2. How is the absence of the children's' parents explained to the Major?

3. What did Germans do to people they arrested?

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

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

6. What happened to the Poles if they were caught with a bicycle?

7. What does Kulturtrager mean?

8. What did the Russian partisans call the Stepmother?

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

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

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