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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of candy does Bruno say he loves in Chapter Twelve: "Shmuel Thinks of an Answer to Bruno's Question"?
(a) Licorice.
(b) Gumdrops.
(c) Toffee.
(d) Chocolate.

2. What is Bruno doing when his sister Gretel comes into his room in Chapter Fourteen: "Bruno Tells a Perfectly Reasonable Lie"?
(a) Writing a letter.
(b) Reading.
(c) Listening to music.
(d) Wrapping up food.

3. How does Shmuel say the soldiers feel about him and the others on his side of the fence in Chapter Eighteen: "Thinking Up the Final Adventure"?
(a) He says they envy them.
(b) He says they like them.
(c) He says they are in awe of them.
(d) He says they hate them.

4. Bruno suggests to Shmuel that what has likely happened to his father in Chapter Eighteen: "Thinking Up the Final Adventure"?
(a) He’s been murdered.
(b) He's been set free.
(c) He’s been promoted to a soldier’s rank.
(d) He’s been sent to another town to work.

5. During dinner, Bruno decides that it makes him sad to look at whom, in Chapter Thirteen: "The Bottle of Wine"?
(a) Bruno’s father.
(b) Lars.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Pavel.

6. What does Bruno offer to do in order to help Shmuel in Chapter Eighteen: "Thinking Up the Final Adventure"?
(a) Ask his grandmother if Shmuel can live with him.
(b) Ask his father about Shmuel’s father.
(c) Report Shmuel’s father missing to the police.
(d) Ask his mother about Shmuel’s father.

7. How is the Fury’s moustache described in Chapter Eleven: "The Fury"?
(a) “Tiny.”
(b) “Plain.”
(c) “Choppy.”
(d) “Square.”

8. What is no longer displayed in Gretel’s room in Chapter Sixteen: "The Haircut"?
(a) Her dresses.
(b) Her record player.
(c) Her paino.
(d) Her dolls.

9. What does Gretel spend her spare time doing in the weeks that pass in Chapter Seventeen: "Mother Gets Her Own Way"?
(a) Playing with makeup.
(b) Reading romance novels.
(c) Reading newspapers.
(d) Playing with her dolls.

10. What does Bruno’s father discover about the fence in Chapter Twenty: "The Last Chapter"?
(a) It is electrified.
(b) It is not properly secured where Bruno’s clothes were found.
(c) It is properly secured at all locations.
(d) It has been burned away where Bruno entered.

11. How long does Bruno’s family stay in Berlin when they return for Grandmother’s funeral in Chapter Sixteen: "The Haircut"?
(a) 8 days.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 2 weeks.
(d) 2 days.

12. What is the real name of the camp that Bruno calls Out-With in the novel?
(a) Banjica.
(b) Dachau.
(c) Auschwitz.
(d) Krakow.

13. When he is talking to Gretel in his room in Chapter Fourteen: "Bruno Tells a Perfectly Reasonable Lie,” Bruno recalls the time in class he’d put his hand up and called the teacher what?
(a) “Mother.”
(b) “Sarah.”
(c) “Miss Lost.”
(d) “Miss Potts.”

14. Shmuel tells Bruno in Chapter Thirteen: "The Bottle of Wine" that most of the people on his side of the fence are from Poland, but there are others from what country?
(a) Czechoslovakia.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Italy.

15. For how long does Bruno say he and Shmuel have been meeting and talking to one another in Chapter Eighteen: "Thinking Up the Final Adventure"?
(a) For more than a year.
(b) For over two years.
(c) For a few weeks.
(d) For more than a month.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did World War II end in Europe?

2. What is the name of the friend in Berlin that Bruno recalls of his three “best friends for life” in Chapter Seventeen: "Mother Gets Her Own Way"?

3. During dinner in Chapter Thirteen: "The Bottle of Wine,” Bruno complains that Herr Liszt won’t let them read what?

4. What is Bruno’s reply when Shmuel says to him in Chapter Twelve: "Shmuel Thinks of an Answer to Bruno's Question,” “You’re on the wrong side of the fence though”?

5. What is the name of the pirate in Bruno’s book in Chapter Fifteen: "Something He Shouldn't Have Done"?

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