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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 is one regret of the priest before he dies?
(a) He has behaved as a coward all his life.
(b) He never married the woman he loved.
(c) The priest regrets not having a real church as a parish.
(d) The priest never told Nelka that he loved her.

2. The Major saves Gretel's life during the inspection, why?
(a) She reminds him of his sister.
(b) She was his favorite villager.
(c) He thinks she is to beautiful to kill.
(d) He wants to irritate the Oberfuhrer.

3. Why does the priest decide to get the baby for Nelka?
(a) It is his way of repenting for all his past sins.
(b) The priest wants to show the village he is brave.
(c) Father Piotr believes he will be redeemed.
(d) He believes his soul is such a little, worthless one.

4. Why does Hansel want to get out of the village so quickly when he is kicked out of Halina's?
(a) He is afraid of the Major.
(b) He needs to get back to the cabin before it begins to snow.
(c) He is afraid Halina's aunt will get him in trouble.
(d) He does not want to cry in front of the other children.

5. What are the revving trucks doing at the camp, Birkenau?
(a) Pumping poison into the showers.
(b) Covering all the screaming.
(c) The exhaust is used as poison.
(d) Powering the ovens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the two men who rape Gretel?

2. Where does Magda hide the children from the German soldiers?

3. What does Hansel do to prove to the village children that he is not afraid?

4. Why is an extra place set at Magda's Christmas Eve dinner table?

5. Who witnesses the priest kill the soldier and the Brown Sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Brown Sister take the baby from Nelka?

2. Hansel provides a reason for being circumcised to the Oberfuhrer when being inspected, what was that reason?

3. What was the one thing the priest asked of Telek when Telek confesses?

4. What happened to Nelka, Telek and the baby?

5. What had brought the stepmother to the field?

6. How does the story end?

7. What tragedy is stuck in Father Poitr's mind from his service in the war?

8. What is Hansel's secret that he shares with Halina?

9. The stepmother dies. How is she killed?

10. When it was stated that Gretel was mad during her inspection, what was going to be her fate at the age of 13?

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