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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Herr Schneider pay to have done?
(a) To send Friedrich to the United States.
(b) Have a bodyguard for Friedrich.
(c) His door repaired and the roses fixed.
(d) Have his wife's body sent to Israel.

2. How does the narrator's family show its continued concern for Friedrich?
(a) The draw a bath for him and give him clean clothes.
(b) They off to take him with them to the air raid shelter.
(c) They hug him and cry.
(d) They give him all their money.

3. What does Friedrich do?
(a) Fixes lamps.
(b) Works for the narrator's father.
(c) Still goes to school.
(d) Helps his dad collect junk.

4. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?
(a) By covering his mouth with her hand.
(b) With a kiss.
(c) By asking him to hush.
(d) With a scream.

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

6. For what does Friedrich ask?
(a) To be able to sleep there that night.
(b) For them to help him kill himself.
(c) For a bundle of food so he can flee Germany.
(d) The photograph of the two families at the park many years ago.

7. What does Resch do when the narrator's family pounds on the locked shelter door?
(a) Refuses to open it.
(b) Tells the others that they can open it.
(c) Calls to ask his supervisor's advice.
(d) Opens it.

8. What does Friedrich do to Resch?
(a) Slaps him.
(b) Offers his forgiveness.
(c) Spits in his face.
(d) Kills him.

9. What does Schuster demand of the boys when he sees Friedrich?
(a) Demands his boys show what Germans do to inferior Jews.
(b) That they pretend not to see him.
(c) That they run around him in circles to intimidate him.
(d) That they spit on Friedrich.

10. What does the rabbi say he understands?
(a) The fact that his life may end soon.
(b) The danger to the narrator's family.
(c) The way of the peaceful warrior.
(d) The reasons the Germans hate the Jews.

11. About what do the boys chant?
(a) About the Jews perishing in the Red Sea, bringing peace to the world.
(b) About Hitler's love for his people.
(c) About the Olympics.
(d) Nothing; they are absolutely silent while they circle Friedrich.

12. The narrator picks what up and uses it?
(a) A bullhorn.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A canister of tear gas.

13. What does the narrator's mother think is wrong with Friedrich?
(a) He has fainted.
(b) She does not know.
(c) He is sick.
(d) He is asleep.

14. What does Resch pick up?
(a) His wounded garden dwarf, Polycarp.
(b) An unexploded shell.
(c) Some debris on his rose bush.
(d) A spade that has embedded in his rose bush.

15. Where do the narrator and Friedrich go?
(a) To the movies.
(b) To a skating rink.
(c) To the swimiming pool.
(d) To watch the tanks go by on their way to Poland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator run upstairs to Friedrich's apartment?

2. Who are Schloime and Gitte?

3. About whom does the rabbi tell a story?

4. About what does the narrator worry?

5. Who is Helga?

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