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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the doctor begin chanting as Frau Schneider is dying?
(a) The Book of Genesis.
(b) The Lord's Prayer.
(c) The 23rd psalm.
(d) "Hear O Israel."

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

7. Of what does Resch boast?
(a) His meeting with Hitler.
(b) His wealth.
(c) German power.
(d) His position of authority.

8. About whom does the rabbi tell a story?
(a) Noah.
(b) Elijah.
(c) David.
(d) Solomon.

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

10. Who is Herr Schuster?
(a) A policeman.
(b) Friedrich's uncle.
(c) The new landlord.
(d) A commander of the Nazi storm troops.

11. What has Friedrich lost?
(a) His best agate marble.
(b) The tag to his clothes.
(c) His bike.
(d) His id.

12. When Friedrich tries to run out of the theater, who stops him?
(a) An old usherette.
(b) A policeman.
(c) The narrator.
(d) No one.

13. What does the rabbi insist upon doing?
(a) Meeting the narrator and thanking him.
(b) Taking off the Star of David on his jacket.
(c) Leaving the Schneider home.
(d) Saying the Sabbath prayers.

14. What happens as Friedrich is eating?
(a) The police pound on the door.
(b) Friedrich slumps over dead asleep.
(c) The sirens begin to wail.
(d) Friedrich begins sobbing.

15. What does Herr Schneider start to say?
(a) "Go to..."
(b) "You were right, Herr..."
(c) "You bas..."
(d) "You are going to burn..."

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the boys chant?

2. For what has the narrator been reprimanded?

3. What does Herr Schneider learn?

4. What is the town like after the air raid?

5. What does Resch do when the narrator's family pounds on the locked shelter door?

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