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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. Why is the Major not fighting on the front lines?

2. How is Gretel's age disguised in the photograph?

3. How does the Major honor Gretel during her first visit to the village?

4. What is Gretel able to read?

5. What happens to all the German horses?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened to Magda's grandmother?

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

4. What did the Russian partisans call the Stepmother?

5. What explanation is given to the Major on how the children were brought to Magda?

6. What did the Major think of Gretel when he first interacted with her in the village?

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

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

9. What did the Russian partisans do to get food and clothing?

10. What happened to the Poles if they were caught with a bicycle?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Russian's group, including the Mechanik, sacked a local farm, killing the farmer and his wife and burning most of the property. Discuss the reasons behind the sacking, and the justifications for the act.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why the Major saves Gretel's life during the inspection of the children in the chapter "Eindeutschung." Discuss the reasons and the implications.

Essay Topic 3

The story opens with a woman insisting two children are left on the the side of a road. Discuss the Stepmother's insistence to abandon the children in the forest. In what ways did it help? In what ways did it not help? Would you have done the same if you were in that situation?

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