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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What do the two boys do?
(a) The narrator goes to his apartment and Friedrich accompanies his father to his apartment.
(b) Go off to the park so as not to disturb the adults.
(c) Query Mr. Schneider as to the problem.
(d) Pretend they do not see Mr. Schneider.

6. Whose office sign has a the word "Jew" scrawled across it?
(a) Friedrich's father's shop.
(b) The stationery shop.
(c) The bakery shop.
(d) Dr. Jakob Askenase.

7. Where does the narrator take Friedrich?
(a) To club night at the Jungvolk.
(b) To the movies.
(c) To his soccer game.
(d) To the amusement park.

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

9. What does Mr. Schneider ask of the narrator's father?
(a) To watch after his wife and son if something happens to Mr. Schneider.
(b) Nothing.
(c) To try to borrow some money from Herr Resch.
(d) To continue as before.

10. What do parents traditionally do on the first day of school?
(a) Have a barbeque.
(b) Dress their children in lederhosen.
(c) Go to the movies.
(d) Have a celebration.

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

12. Who does housework for the Schneiders?
(a) Frau Penk.
(b) Frau Resch.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) No one.

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

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

15. What does the narrator watch?
(a) The death of a sparrow in the snow.
(b) The way the ice freezes on the sidewalk.
(c) The Nazis walking by the apartment.
(d) The building of a snowman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Jews flee to Poland and Russia?

2. What does Herr Resch yell at Friedrich?

3. What does the officer tell the narrator?

4. What image strikes the narrator?

5. Who will no longer be allowed to attend the school?

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