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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will no longer be allowed to attend the school?
(a) No one is barred from attending school.
(b) The narrator because he's poor.
(c) Friedrich, because he is a Jew.
(d) Both Friedrich and the narrator because they are now in a different district.

2. 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.

3. About what do the children tease Mr. Rosenthal?
(a) About looking like a goat.
(b) About the color of his eyes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) About his yarmulka.

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

5. Who clears the snow?
(a) Frau Resch.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Herr Resch.
(d) Friedrich.

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

7. Who does the judge suggest the Nazis may turn against next?
(a) Vegetarians and Catholics.
(b) The Russians.
(c) Those of a different political party.
(d) The Poles.

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

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

10. What happens when Friedrich misses the ball that the narrator throws?
(a) The ball breaks a store window.
(b) The ball hits a Nazi soldier.
(c) The ball rolls down a hill into the water.
(d) A dog catches the ball.

11. Who weeps in joy at the verdict?
(a) Herr Resch.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) Friedrich.
(d) Mr. Schneider.

12. How does the grandfather admonish his son?
(a) By saying his home is dirty.
(b) By telling his son how to invest his money.
(c) By saying that the grandfather's wife would never live in such a dump.
(d) By saying he should have gotten a job with the railroad.

13. Who does the landlord ask to witness his conversation with Mr. Schneider?
(a) The baker.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) The narrator's mother.
(d) No one.

14. When is the narrator born?
(a) A year after Friedrich.
(b) One week before Friedrich.
(c) On the same day as Friedrich.
(d) One week before Friedrich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father do?

2. What teacher asks his students to remain after school in his class?

3. Who addresses the meeting?

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

5. What is in the narrator's first-day candy bag?

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