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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 would have happened to Nelka had she admitted she had gypsy blood?
(a) She would have killed herself and her family.
(b) She would have lost the baby.
(c) Magda and the children would be killed.
(d) The Oberfuhrer would have killed her.

2. How does Telek maime Miron and Ania's little girl?
(a) He burns her arm.
(b) He cuts off her index finger.
(c) He breaks her leg.
(d) Telek cuts her face.

3. What makes Magda happy when on the truck, even though she knows she is in trouble with the Germans?
(a) Her brother died a hero.
(b) Hansel and Gretel are safe inside the oven.
(c) The war was almost over.
(d) Nelka and the baby are safe and gone.

4. Where does Telek take Nelka and the baby to hide?
(a) The forest swamp.
(b) The Russian partisan group's hide-out.
(c) The abandoned farm the partisans had burned down.
(d) Primeval forest where the wild ponies stayed.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is one thing Telek knows he will never touch again after injuring the children?

3. What does Nelka ask Telek to do for her when she becomes aware of his strange demeanor?

4. What are the revving trucks doing at the camp, Birkenau?

5. What suspicion does Wiktor have confirmed during the inspection of Hansel and Gretel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had brought the stepmother to the field?

2. Who was listening to Telek's plans to murder the officers and the Brown Sister?

3. What did Hansel get bullied into doing to show he was not afraid when he ventured into the village alone?

4. What did the Oberfuhrer demand from Nelka?

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

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

7. How does the story end?

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

9. What does Telek confess to the priest?

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

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