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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Gretel able to read?

2. When a car arrives at the village, what does that car signal to the villagers?

3. Why does Magda take the children to the Major in the village?

4. What secret was the Stepmother keeping from the father of Hansel and Gretel?

5. Why was the old woman, named Magda, feeding the birds?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Magda plan to say that would cover Hansel's circumcision?

2. Why did Magda take the children to the village?

3. What did Germans do to people they arrested?

4. What secret is Basha and Andrzej keeping?

5. What happened to Magda's grandmother?

6. What did the Russian partisans call the Stepmother?

7. What does Kulturtrager mean?

8. What did Germans use to travel from village to village?

9. How did the Jew that was helping the Russian partisans die when they raided the farm?

10. How did Magda introduce the children to the Major?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The children are brought to the village for their ration cards. The villagers later described Hansel and Gretel as brats on page 78 of the novel. Discuss why they used this term to describe the two children.

Essay Topic 2

Gretel is not in her right mind, yet she is able to show Father Poitr that God is still present. Explain why the priest needed convincing, how Gretel helps, and discuss the implications.

Essay Topic 3

Magda is holding Hansel after the ordeal with Gretel's illness. She tells him, "You will never be rich, my child, you will be moving too fast to be burdened with all those things that the outsider,the gadju, want" (113). Explain and discuss what she means by this statement.

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