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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what do the children tease Mr. Rosenthal?
(a) Nothing.
(b) About the color of his eyes.
(c) About looking like a goat.
(d) About his yarmulka.

2. With what does the the shop owner threaten Friedrich?
(a) Reporting to Friedrich's parents.
(b) Juvenile detention.
(c) Prison.
(d) Hitler.

3. What does Friedrich have for his outfit?
(a) A old WWI helmet.
(b) A toy rifle.
(c) A grand ring.
(d) A yellow star of David.

4. Who addresses the meeting?
(a) Herr Himler.
(b) Hitler.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) A dwarf dressed in a brown uniform.

5. What happens when Mrs. Schneider goes to talk with the housekeeper?
(a) The housekeeper says she can no longer work for Mrs. Schneider.
(b) The housekeeper have moved.
(c) The housekeeper wants a raise.
(d) The housekeeper has been arrested.

6. What does Friedrich do with his candy?
(a) Shares with everyone.
(b) Hoards it in his room.
(c) Drops it out the window by accident.
(d) Gives it back to the baker as he does not like it.

7. Why are the narrator's parents uncomfortable at the amusement park?
(a) Because the Schneiders have no money.
(b) Because the others see them with a Jewish family.
(c) Because their are German soldiers all over.
(d) Because the Schneiders have to buy all the tickets and food.

8. For whom does the narrator's grandfather work?
(a) The mercantile guild.
(b) The government.
(c) He is self-employed.
(d) The railroad.

9. Why can't the housekeeper work for Mrs. Schneider?
(a) Because German law prohibits Germans under the age of 35 from working for Jews.
(b) Her back is out of whack.
(c) Her kids need her at home.
(d) Her husband forbids it.

10. What does the officer tell the narrator?
(a) To go home and be quiet.
(b) He is too young to understand how sneaky and dishonest the Jews are.
(c) To stick up for Friedrich.
(d) To pay the shop owner.

11. For what does the narrator's father pay?
(a) The exit tax.
(b) The ride home.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Licorice and a group photograph.

12. Who has a serious talk?
(a) The narrator's father and the narrator.
(b) Mr. Schneider and the narrator.
(c) The narrator's father and Mr. Schneider.
(d) The narrator's father and Friedrich.

13. What does the store owner call Friedrich?
(a) "Good-for-nothing Jewboy."
(b) A rotten Jungvolk.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A bad catcher.

14. Who lives above the narrator's family?
(a) A elderly bachelor.
(b) Two elderly sisters.
(c) The landlord.
(d) The reclusive Schneiders.

15. In what language is the dinner ceremony conducted?
(a) German.
(b) Yiddish.
(c) English.
(d) Hebrew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What teacher asks his students to remain after school in his class?

2. What do the two boys do?

3. What has the narrator's father encouraged him to do?

4. What does the narrator's father find after joining the Nazi party?

5. Who does Mr. Schneider meet on the landing?

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