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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sign is one man carrying outside Mr. Rosenthal's shop?
(a) "Jews welcome here."
(b) "Don't buy from Jews."
(c) "Take precautions for the flu."
(d) "Go home Brits."

2. Where does Mrs. Schneider go to sob loudly?
(a) To the narrator's apartment.
(b) To the police station.
(c) To see Mr. Rosenthal.
(d) To the synagogue.

3. Why did Jews flee to Poland and Russia?
(a) To avoid death at the hands of the crusaders.
(b) Because there was lots of opportunity there.
(c) Because they didn't know where else to go.
(d) Because they had a freedom of religion act.

4. What does Herr Resch yell at Friedrich?
(a) To wait for the narrator.
(b) To get off his rose bushes.
(c) To get back inside as it is too cold.
(d) To build the snowman off the sidewalk.

5. What does Friedrich tie around his neck?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A noose.
(c) A black bandana.
(d) A yellow scarf.

6. What is the problem with Mr. Schneider?
(a) He did not get a big promotion because the company is doing poorly.
(b) He finds out he has an incurable disease.
(c) He lost his job because he is Jewish.
(d) He hurt a man badly on the job today.

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

8. Who does Mr. Schneider meet on the landing?
(a) Herr Resch.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Friedrich.
(d) Mrs. Schneider.

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

10. What does Mr. Schneider tell the sales girl the boys can have?
(a) A look from the roof of the building.
(b) A piece of candy.
(c) A toy to be charged to Mr. Schneider.
(d) A tour of the administrative floors.

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

12. What does the narrator warn Friedrich not to reveal?
(a) That the narrator has no money.
(b) That Friedrich is not a Nazi.
(c) That Friedrich is Jewish.
(d) That the narrator is a year too young to join the group.

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

14. What is Germany full of at the moment?
(a) Working towards peace.
(b) Unlimited opportunities.
(c) Spiritual awakenings.
(d) Unemployment and hardship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator watch as sundown approaches?

2. What does the narrator's father confess?

3. Who does housework for the Schneiders?

4. What is obvious by the conversation about the grandfather?

5. What violates Nazi ideology?

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