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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 suspicion does Wiktor have confirmed during the inspection of Hansel and Gretel?
(a) That the Major likes Gretel.
(b) That the Oberfuhrer speaks Polish.
(c) That Hansel is a Jew.
(d) That Gretel has been raped.

2. Why are the mentally defective killed by the Germans?
(a) The Aryan bloodline has to be perfect.
(b) The Oberfuhrer hates crazy people.
(c) The mentally defective are a burden.
(d) They are potentially dangerous.

3. What does the oven worker think about the moving air above the furnaces?
(a) It is the screams of all the dead Jews.
(b) It shows that the furnaces are extremely hot.
(c) It shows the power of the Germans.
(d) It is the souls of the Jews going back to God.

4. How does Telek take care of the first group of children?
(a) He breaks their legs and cuts their faces
(b) He hits them with a club.
(c) He burns them and the house.
(d) He burns the house down.

5. What does the Menorah signify?
(a) The world is a miracle.
(b) That Christ will soon be born.
(c) God loves everything and everyone.
(d) Christ has been born.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nelka react to Telek's story of what he did to the children?

2. Who is witness to the blood transfusion?

3. Why is the stepmother in the woods when Gretel is raped?

4. What is one regret of the priest before he dies?

5. What is Eindeutschung?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the Oberfuhrer degrade the priest in front of the villagers?

2. Who was the one who saved Gretel from being killed by the men who raped her?

3. Nelka swore she was not a gypsy and the Oberfuhrer was relieved, why?

4. What does Gretel light in the forest for Father Poitr?

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

6. What happened to change the Russian's group of partisans in March, 1944?

7. What had brought the stepmother to the field?

8. How does the story end?

9. What were the German soldiers transporting when the Russian partisans stumble upon them?

10. Hansel was in the woods on Christmas eve, what did he save from the Oberfuhrer?

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