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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. According to Daniel, what hit him between the eyes when he was ten?
(a) A tennis ball.
(b) A soccer ball.
(c) A basketball.
(d) A baseball.

2. What type of work does Daniel do while housed in Lodz?
(a) Photographer.
(b) Dentist.
(c) Metal work.
(d) Carpentry.

3. What does Daniel think of his mother's appearance in Chapter 3?
(a) That she is tired.
(b) That she is close to death.
(c) That she is beautiful.
(d) That she is too thin.

4. What news comes in October that scares Daniel?
(a) His family is emigrating to the United States.
(b) His family is deported.
(c) His family is being sent to a concentration camp.
(d) His family is being arrested.

5. During the last meeting in the courtyard, what does Erika tell Rosa and Daniel to do when confronted with so much hate?
(a) To fight.
(b) Choose love.
(c) To wait for rescue.
(d) To hide.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Daniel and his family are being marched through the streets of Frankfurt, what does Daniel feel?

2. What is the name of Daniel's public school teacher?

3. What happens to Daniel's father's store the day after Kristallnacht?

4. Which uncle refuses to listen to Daniel's father about being prudent in Lodz?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how old is Daniel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Erika statement, "But maybe if we can hold out long enough, the war will end before they have a chance to kill us" important to the theme of chapter six?

2. What is significant about Rosa and Daniel teaching the father a lesson about stealing bread from his children?

3. Why does Auntie Leah decide not to leave her two girls?

4. Why did Daniel feel he had to go see "The Eternal Jew"?

5. The day after the Brown Shirt incident, Uncle Peter comes to take a picture of the word, Jew sprayed on Daniel's father's store. Why is this action of importance that it should be photographed?

6. What is significant about the Brown Shirt boycott of Daniel's father's store?

7. Why does Daniel not react when he and Fredrich find the elderly man dead in his apartment?

8. In what ways is Erika playing in an orchestra not normal for Daniel's family?

9. How does tradition and the fact that Daniel's family has been in Germany for over a thousand years affect his parents' decisions about emigrating?

10. What does Daniel mean when he says, "Yes, I can see from going through these pictures how it all started slowly and then got worse and worse and how the German people didn't try to stop it and how slowly all our rights were taken away until we were nothing but bodies being shipped out."

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