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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. About a month after Oma Miriam dies, who comes to Daniel's home?
(a) A postman.
(b) An SS Black Shirt.
(c) The police.
(d) Uncle Peter.

2. What happens on Daniel's birthday in March of 1943?
(a) Rosa kisses him.
(b) His father dies.
(c) A party.
(d) A youth-group meeting.

3. What city is Daniel and his family leaving at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) London.

4. What happens to Uncle Peter and other Jewish professors?
(a) They are all killed.
(b) They are given other university positions.
(c) They are given a cut in pay.
(d) They are fired from their university positions.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 7, who is in the photo?
(a) Rosa.
(b) Erika.
(c) Father.
(d) Mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Daniel's sister?

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

3. During the winter of 1943, what becomes scare?

4. What happens to Uncle Peter six days after Daniel takes Erika to the newsreels?

5. What does Rosa tell Daniel about the man who lives near her apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Uncle Peter's death affect Daniel?

3. Why is the radio important to Daniel's family?

4. What does Daniel mean when he says that Rosa's smile was an act of defiance?

5. How does Daniel's inability to promise Rosa he will hide when his family's deportation papers come demonstrate his love for them?

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

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

8. 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."

9. 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?

10. What is most important about the two photographs Daniel recalls in chapter two?

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