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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who watches the narrator while his mother is working?
(a) His aunt.
(b) Mrs. Schneider.
(c) The kindergarten school.
(d) No one.

2. What is Friedrich explaining to the narrator?
(a) Math problems.
(b) Kantian Philosophy.
(c) Geography.
(d) Marxism.

3. Who rings the doorbell looking for the narrator?
(a) The baker from down the street.
(b) The narrator's teacher.
(c) Mrs. Schneidrer.
(d) Friedrich.

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

5. What has Resch been for a year?
(a) Very ill.
(b) A landlord of other buildings besides the one where the Schneiders live.
(c) A Nazi.
(d) Much more quiet than usual.

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

7. How does Mr. Schneider answer the narrator's father?
(a) That he has no money to spend.
(b) That there is nowhere else to go.
(c) That the Jewish quarter is full.
(d) That he will stop so as not to endanger the narrator's family.

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

9. What causes Mr. Schneider to become sick at heart?
(a) Finding out the the narrator's father is moving the family to Dresden.
(b) Hearing that Friedrich wants to join the Jungvolk.
(c) Learning that the narrator's mother is very ill and may die.
(d) Hearing that the narrator's father has joined the Nazi party.

10. Of what does the speaker talk?
(a) The glory of WWI.
(b) The terrible things the Jews have done.
(c) The coming glory of war.
(d) The plight of the unemployed.

11. What does the narrator ask of Mr. Schneider?
(a) To stop talking to his family.
(b) That he leave Germany while he still can.
(c) To move down the street to the Jewish quarter.
(d) To borrow some money.

12. Where do Friedrich and the narrator go in the department store?
(a) The toy floor.
(b) Friedrich's father's office.
(c) The boy's clothing to meet their mothers.
(d) The basement bargains.

13. What has left Mr. Schneider?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Hope.
(c) Courage.
(d) Fear.

14. What does Mrs. Schneider explain about the mezuzah?
(a) That it belongs to all humanity.
(b) That it helps Jews remember God and his commandments.
(c) That it is an ancient Greek symbol.
(d) That it is a Celtic symbol of fertitlity.

15. What does the judge tell the Reschs' attorney?
(a) That Resch is a bigot.
(b) That the Schneiders should vacate the premises within sixty days.
(c) There are no grounds for the Schneider's eviction.
(d) That the Schneiders should vacate the premises immediately.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator's family prepare for the grandfather's visit?

2. When is the narrator born?

3. What does the store owner call Friedrich?

4. What does Mr. Schneider ask of the narrator's father?

5. Why can't the housekeeper work for Mrs. Schneider?

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