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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 was it that Father Poitr had to get out of the boxcar when he was enlisted?
(a) Wounded Germans.
(b) Guns and explosives.
(c) Frozen Jews.
(d) Ammunition and food.

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

3. What does the Major think the result of the Christmas Eve hunt will be?
(a) The Major thinks he will be court-marshaled and shot.
(b) The Major thinks the Oberfuhrer will kill Hansel.
(c) The Major believes the Oberfuhrer is going to be hurt.
(d) The Major believes the Oberfuhrer will become violent if he does not get a boar.

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

5. What does Father Piotr do after he sends Hansel away from the village?
(a) The priest kills two people and steals the baby.
(b) Father Piotr heads toward Telek's to stop him.
(c) He starts drinking again.
(d) He takes the baby to Nelka.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Telek take care of the first group of children?

2. What happens on March 11, 1944 to the partisans?

3. Where does Hansel go when he is kicked out of the cabin?

4. What does Gretel think she is doing as Telek brings her back to the cabin?

5. What happens to all the ashes of the dead, once their bodies are incinerated?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was going to happen to Nelka's baby, once inspected?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What had brought the stepmother to the field?

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

10. Why did the Oberfuhrer participate in transfusions?

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