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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must the housekeeper's husband be careful?
(a) He is a former Communist.
(b) His job is precarious.
(c) His cousin is married to a Jew.
(d) He is a foreman at a Nazi weapons manufacturing plant.

2. Why does the Nazi demand that Friedrich and the narrator leave?
(a) Because they are so young.
(b) Because they go into the shop.
(c) Because they greet Mr. Rosenthal.
(d) Because they are Jews.

3. What does the landlord want?
(a) To ask that the Schnieders move to the basement apartment.
(b) To reprimand Friedrich.
(c) The next three month's rent in advance.
(d) That the Schneiders vacate their apartment.

4. What is the first time Friedrich has experienced this as he watches his father?
(a) Anger at Hitler.
(b) A grown man cry.
(c) Empathy.
(d) A fear in the pit of his stomach.

5. What teacher asks his students to remain after school in his class?
(a) Herr Jakob.
(b) Teacher Neudorf.
(c) Herr Reichter.
(d) Mr. Rosenthal.

6. What does the narrator's mother mention when she bathes both of the boys?
(a) Friedrich's circumcision.
(b) That the narrator is much more musclular than Friedrich.
(c) That Friedrich is much darker than the narrator.
(d) That the water shows how badly they needed a bath.

7. How does the narrator explain the bumping noise above?
(a) By saying it is Friedrich.
(b) Saying they are rats in the walls.
(c) By running upstairs to tell them to be quiet.
(d) By pretending he does not hear the noise.

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

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

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

11. What does the teacher tell the students?
(a) That war is coming and they must start thinking like soldiers.
(b) That school is no longer going to meet.
(c) A brief history of the Jews and the persecution they have endured.
(d) That they must all join Jungvolk.

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

13. How does the narrator's family prepare for the grandfather's visit?
(a) Sending the narrator to stay with the Schneiders.
(b) No preparations are necessary.
(c) Cleaning and buying special coffee.
(d) Going to the governement to request larger quarters.

14. Where is the narrator's apartment?
(a) In London.
(b) In Bonn.
(c) In the Resch home.
(d) In a small village.

15. What do the narrator and his mother do before going outside?
(a) Remove their jewelry so it doesn't freeze their skin.
(b) Knock on Friedrich's door.
(c) Cross themselves because they are Catholic.
(d) Look out the window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sign is one man carrying outside Mr. Rosenthal's shop?

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

3. What has left Mr. Schneider?

4. With what does Friedrich greet a man outside the Meyer department store?

5. Of what does the speaker talk?

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