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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator find himself doing without thinking?
(a) Feeling pride in the word of Hitler.
(b) Yelling for a job with everyone else.
(c) Chanting at the door of the Jewish apprentice home.
(d) Trying to stop the mob from hurting the Jews.

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

3. Who does the rabbi say will help him further?
(a) His wife's family.
(b) A German soldier whose life the rabbi saved.
(c) No one.
(d) Other friends.

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

5. What does Dr. Levy place beside Frau Schneider's body?
(a) A lit candle.
(b) A marzuka.
(c) A cross.
(d) A copy of the torah.

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

7. Why do they decide not to let Friedrich stay?
(a) Because Friedrich has no identification.
(b) Because no one is allowed in after the raid starts.
(c) Because Resch threatens to report them all.
(d) Because Friedrich is a Jew.

8. What do they announce when the lights come on?
(a) That those who are under 12 must have a parent with them.
(b) That there is an air raid.
(c) That all ID's must be checked.
(d) That Germany has declared war.

9. What do the boys do next?
(a) Read the newspaper at the library.
(b) Swim and sun.
(c) Chase some girls in fun.
(d) Play soccer.

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

11. What does Herr Schneider learn?
(a) That he is can no longer live in this town.
(b) That he may have a job in Dusseldorf.
(c) That he is being evicted again.
(d) That he is being sent to a camp.

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

13. 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 spit on Friedrich.
(c) That they run around him in circles to intimidate him.
(d) That they pretend not to see him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father advise Friedrich to do?

2. Why does Herr Schneider bring Dr. Levy to the narrator's apartment?

3. What does the rabbi say he understands?

4. What does the rabbi insist upon doing?

5. Over what does Friedrich weep?

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