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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who demands the case be dismissed?
(a) Schneider.
(b) Schneider's attorney.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) Resch.

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

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

7. How does Mr. Schneider look when he waves goodbye to the boys?
(a) Angry.
(b) He is no longer smiling.
(c) Jolly.
(d) Optimistic.

8. What does the narrator's mother mention when she bathes both of the boys?
(a) Friedrich's circumcision.
(b) That the water shows how badly they needed a bath.
(c) That Friedrich is much darker than the narrator.
(d) That the narrator is much more musclular than 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) Hearing that the narrator's father has joined the Nazi party.
(c) Finding out the the narrator's father is moving the family to Dresden.
(d) Hearing that Friedrich wants to join the Jungvolk.

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

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

12. 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 pay the shop owner.
(d) To stick up for Friedrich.

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

14. What does the narrator's father confess?
(a) That he has joined the Nazi party.
(b) That he has turned in the Schneiders as Jews.
(c) That he is leaving Germany.
(d) That his son is going to military school.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do with his candy?

2. Where do Friedrich and the narrator go in the department store?

3. What do the two boys do?

4. What is Friedrich explaining to the narrator?

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

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