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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 does Nelka ask Telek to do for her when she becomes aware of his strange demeanor?
(a) Nelka demands he confess about what he did to all the village children.
(b) Nelka asks Telek to not steal the baby, as it would kill all the villagers.
(c) She asks him to get the baby back when the Germans leave the village.
(d) She asks him to confess to the priest about his plans to steal the baby.

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

3. What does the priest hear first while waiting to be captured?
(a) He learns what the Germans do to the children they take away.
(b) The Russian army advancing toward the village.
(c) He learns of his death sentence.
(d) The German army firing on the neighboring village.

4. What does Gretel promise Telek before she goes into the woods alone?
(a) She promises to take Hansel.
(b) Gretel promises not to sing while alone in the woods.
(c) She promises to tell him if she sees the ponies.
(d) Gretel promises not to go into the woods twice.

5. Why is Hansel so worried about Gretel's madness?
(a) The Germans take crazy people to the camps.
(b) He does not want to be the responsible one.
(c) Magda might want to throw them out.
(d) The Germans kill crazy people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the Stepmother neglected to do when she goes to check on the children?

2. What stopps Magda from taking the children to the secret hiding place?

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

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

5. What is ordered to happen to Gretel at the age of 13 when she is inspected?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. The stepmother dies. How is she killed?

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

4. What does Telek confess to the priest?

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

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

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

8. What was the car, painted green with an odd shape and open top?

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

10. What did the Oberfuhrer demand from Nelka?

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