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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. After Daniel leaves public school, who becomes his new teacher?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) Uncle Walter.
(d) Uncle Peter.

2. What is the name of Daniel's sister?
(a) Erika.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Jane.
(d) Heather.

3. What do Rosa and Erika do for work?
(a) Make soup.
(b) Peel potatoes.
(c) Make uniforms.
(d) Shine shoes.

4. What does Rosa want Daniel to promise her if deportation begins?
(a) To hide.
(b) To help his family.
(c) To stay with her.
(d) To fight.

5. When Daniel looks up from his photo album who is staring at him?
(a) Erika.
(b) HIs father.
(c) Uncle Aaron.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What special event does Daniel's mother make vegetables patties for?

2. What group does Rosa start?

3. What city is Daniel and his family leaving at the beginning of Chapter 1?

4. In the winter of 1943, what do Daniel and Fredrich discover in the apartment neighboring Fredrich?

5. In Lodz, how long does a loaf of bread have to last each person?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the significance of Daniel being able to identify the pictures by feel?

3. 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?

4. Why does Daniel's father insist they carry their belongings with them instead of doing what the Germans said and putting their belongings in the wagon?

5. What does the photograph of Rosa symbolize?

6. What is the emotional impact of other countries refusal to accept Jews on Daniel's family?

7. 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."

8. Why is the scene with Daniel and his friends skirmish with the Hitler Youth boys important to the story?

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

10. Once more a member of Daniel's family tries to convince others to leave Germany. What is significant about Uncle Aaron's plea with Uncle Peter and Daniel's parents?

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