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

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

3. What do Daniel's family do to keep lice from spreading?
(a) Remove the lice.
(b) Wear scarves.
(c) Remove the lice and kill the eggs every night.
(d) Shower.

4. What do the Germans search for in the ghetto apartments in June 1944?
(a) Cameras.
(b) Food.
(c) Violins.
(d) Radios.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Daniel's father decide to do when they get their transport notices in July 1944?

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

3. What does the Gestapo officer come to Daniel's to get?

4. Daniel is on a train again in Chapter 5. Where do the Nazis tell Daniel he is going?

5. After Daniel's first day at his new school, what is his mother is upset about?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What does the Hitler Youth uniform Oma Miriam makes for Daniel symbolize?

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

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

6. Why was Daniel in a rush to take the picture of Erika and Rosa another important part of chapter eight?

7. What is the tragedy of the kitchen workers at the sewing factory keeping the good vegetables for themselves?

8. What does Daniel's photo album come to represent for him?

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

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

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