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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does the the shop owner threaten Friedrich?
(a) Reporting to Friedrich's parents.
(b) Prison.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Juvenile detention.

2. Who gets to go outside and play?
(a) No one.
(b) The two children in the basement apartment.
(c) The narrator's sister.
(d) Friedrich.

3. What has Resch been for a year?
(a) Much more quiet than usual.
(b) A Nazi.
(c) A landlord of other buildings besides the one where the Schneiders live.
(d) Very ill.

4. About what do the children tease Mr. Rosenthal?
(a) About his yarmulka.
(b) About looking like a goat.
(c) Nothing.
(d) About the color of his eyes.

5. When is the narrator born?
(a) On the same day as Friedrich.
(b) A year after Friedrich.
(c) One week before Friedrich.
(d) One week before Friedrich.

6. What do the narrator and his mother do before going outside?
(a) Cross themselves because they are Catholic.
(b) Look out the window.
(c) Knock on Friedrich's door.
(d) Remove their jewelry so it doesn't freeze their skin.

7. What does the narrator's father confess?
(a) That he is leaving Germany.
(b) That he has turned in the Schneiders as Jews.
(c) That he has joined the Nazi party.
(d) That his son is going to military school.

8. How does Mr. Schneider look when he waves goodbye to the boys?
(a) Optimistic.
(b) Angry.
(c) Jolly.
(d) He is no longer smiling.

9. What does Mr. Schneider ask of the narrator's father?
(a) Nothing.
(b) To watch after his wife and son if something happens to Mr. Schneider.
(c) To continue as before.
(d) To try to borrow some money from Herr Resch.

10. What image strikes the narrator?
(a) The sun touching the horizon.
(b) A passing look of a skull imposed over Friedrich.
(c) The picture of Moses on the wall.
(d) The brilliant white tablecloth, loaves of bread, candles, and wine glasses.

11. Who demands the case be dismissed?
(a) Resch.
(b) Schneider.
(c) Schneider's attorney.
(d) The narrator's father.

12. What does the narrator's mother do while his father is looking for a job?
(a) Washes other people's laundry.
(b) Keeps the house clean.
(c) Is a secretary for the Nazi party.
(d) Babysits six neighborhood children.

13. What violates Nazi ideology?
(a) Being blond haired, blue-eyed.
(b) Being unfair to unemployed tenants.
(c) Going to the Lutheren church.
(d) Having Jews as tenants.

14. For what does the narrator's father pay?
(a) The exit tax.
(b) The ride home.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Licorice and a group photograph.

15. How does the grandfather admonish his son?
(a) By telling his son how to invest his money.
(b) By saying that the grandfather's wife would never live in such a dump.
(c) By saying he should have gotten a job with the railroad.
(d) By saying his home is dirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Friedrich greet a man outside the Meyer department store?

2. Why can't the housekeeper work for Mrs. Schneider?

3. What is the problem with Mr. Schneider?

4. What does the narrator watch?

5. What does the store owner call Friedrich?

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