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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gets to go outside and play?
(a) The two children in the basement apartment.
(b) Friedrich.
(c) The narrator's sister.
(d) No one.

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

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

4. What does the narrator ask of Mr. Schneider?
(a) That he leave Germany while he still can.
(b) To move down the street to the Jewish quarter.
(c) To borrow some money.
(d) To stop talking to his family.

5. What does Friedrich's father ask him?
(a) If he broke the window intentionally.
(b) If he is sorry for the window.
(c) If Friedrich will work off the debt for the window.
(d) If the narrator was the one who broke the window.

6. How would you characterize the teacher's tone?
(a) Accepting of Jews.
(b) Hatred of Jews.
(c) Angry at Germans.
(d) Riotious.

7. How does the grandfather admonish his son?
(a) By saying he should have gotten a job with the railroad.
(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 his home is dirty.

8. What is in the narrator's first-day candy bag?
(a) Three lollipops.
(b) A jawbreaker.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Some confections.

9. With what does Friedrich win over the narrator?
(a) A cuckoo whistle.
(b) His winsome grin.
(c) A doll with real hair.
(d) A toy tank.

10. What does Mr. Schneider offer the shop keeper?
(a) Money to fix the window.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A valuable piece of jewelry.
(d) Help with organizing her shop.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who demands the case be dismissed?

2. How does Mr. Schneider answer the narrator's father?

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

4. Who does housework for the Schneiders?

5. When questioned as to his motives, what does the landlord reply?

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