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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Friedrich meet Helga?
(a) Her bag of apples splits and he helps her gather them up.
(b) The narrator introduces them.
(c) His father invited her to visit.
(d) She came to visit her sister's gravesite.

2. What indications are there that the air raid siren is not a false alarm?
(a) A piece of tree limb flies into the window.
(b) Anti-aircraft guns thunder; searchlights sway across the sky, planes hum, and shrapnel falls.
(c) A policeman with a bullhorn is yelling to the residents.
(d) The apartment building is shaking.

3. What does the narrator tell his mother about his activities?
(a) That he was listening to Hitler who was mesmerizing.
(b) That he was with schoolboys at the pool.
(c) Nothing.
(d) That he was staying after school to help the teacher.

4. Why does the narrator run upstairs to Friedrich's apartment?
(a) He is getting in shape for soccer season.
(b) He wants Friedrich to join him at the pool.
(c) He wants to show Friedrich what he got when with the group of people.
(d) He hears Frau Schneider cry out.

5. Where is Friedrich?
(a) On the stoop.
(b) In the narrator's apartment.
(c) In the back yard.
(d) No where to be seen.

6. Who is Helga?
(a) His paternal aunt.
(b) A girl with whom Friedrich falls in love.
(c) His mother's only sibling.
(d) The new cleaning lady that the narrator's mother hires.

7. Why does Friedrich leave his apartment?
(a) For fear that Resch will call the police.
(b) To pawn some goods from the apartment.
(c) To look for his father.
(d) To find some food.

8. What does the narrator's family do when told to go inside their apartment?
(a) Go inside.
(b) Stand where they are.
(c) Try to attack the policeman.
(d) Spit on Herr Resch.

9. Who are Schloime and Gitte?
(a) David's parents.
(b) Solomon's parents.
(c) Elijah's parents.
(d) Noah's parents.

10. Where is Friedrich?
(a) Hiding in the attic.
(b) He left for the United States.
(c) At Helga's home.
(d) No one knows.

11. Why does Herr Schneider bring Dr. Levy to the narrator's apartment?
(a) To help the narrator who broke his finger.
(b) To introduce him to their friends.
(c) To ask for asylum.
(d) To sterilize his last syringe.

12. Where does the narrator's family sit in the shelter?
(a) As far away from Resch as possible.
(b) In the room away from the door.
(c) Next to another family of the same age.
(d) Near the fresh air pump.

13. About what does the narrator worry?
(a) That the rabbi will be caught and killed.
(b) That Friedrich will be killed.
(c) That Friedrich will break under tortue and finger the narrator as an accomplice.
(d) The strain of keeping this terrible secret.

14. What does the narrator take up to the Schneiders?
(a) An armful of wood.
(b) Some potatoes.
(c) Another letter from the landlord.
(d) Some ice.

15. Over what does Friedrich weep?
(a) Being hungry.
(b) The notice in the letter.
(c) His inability to go to school.
(d) His mother's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is led out in handcuffs?

2. The narrator picks what up and uses it?

3. Who is Herr Schuster?

4. Who do they open the shelter door to find?

5. What does the narrator's mother think is wrong with Friedrich?

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