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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. Why is Nelka concerned for Telek's apparent calm when she meets him in the village drawing water?
(a) He is going to exact revenge on the entire village.
(b) Telek is going to try to kill the Oberfuhrer.
(c) He is planning their escape from the village.
(d) Telek plans to get the baby back and run away with Nelka.

2. Where does Gretel's mind go after the rape?
(a) She thinks she is in a garden.
(b) Gretel's mind goes blank.
(c) She imagines she is with her Zayde.
(d) Gretel thinks of Hansel and Magda.

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

4. What does Gretel think she is doing as Telek brings her back to the cabin?
(a) Going to her garden.
(b) Eating an orange from her grandfather.
(c) Going to see the wild ponies.
(d) Going to see a bison.

5. What does Gretel tell Hansel and Magda she wants?
(a) An orange.
(b) A pony.
(c) A potato.
(d) Her name.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the smell that Magda cannot quite place when she arrives at Birkenau?

2. Gretel is not right in the mind after the rape. What does Gretel expect Telek to show her?

3. The Major saves Gretel's life during the inspection, why?

4. What happens if a child is accepted by the Oberfuhrer during an inspection?

5. Where does Telek take Nelka and the baby to hide?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The stepmother dies. How is she killed?

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

7. Why did the Oberfuhrer participate in transfusions?

8. What did the Oberfuhrer demand from Nelka?

9. What is the Oberfuhrer's ultimate goal in making the priest preach in this manner?

10. How does the story end?

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