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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Schuster do?
(a) He flees Germany for France.
(b) He raises the rent.
(c) He assaults the narrator's father.
(d) He pushes the boys unmercifully as their physical education teacher.

3. Who is led out in handcuffs?
(a) The rabbi and Herr Schneider.
(b) Herr Schneider and Friedrich.
(c) Friedrich and the rabbi.
(d) The rabbi only.

4. What does the narrator's mother try to do for Frau Schneider?
(a) Bring her to their apartment.
(b) Give her CPR.
(c) Tell her she will care for Friedrich.
(d) Pray with her.

5. Who helps the rabbi thread a needle?
(a) No one.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Friedrich.
(d) Herr Schneider.

6. What does Friedrich find when he comes back to his apartment?
(a) Rats already taking over.
(b) Herr Resch ransacking the place.
(c) The narrator crying in the middle of the living room.
(d) Blood all over the floor.

7. What has a boy lost?
(a) His best shoes.
(b) His silver bike.
(c) His dog.
(d) Some money.

8. How does Herr Schneider earn money?
(a) As a janitor.
(b) Scribing for others.
(c) Polishing lamps.
(d) Collecting junk and selling it.

9. Who do they hear climbing the stairs to the upstairs apartment?
(a) No one.
(b) Friedrich.
(c) Herr Resch.
(d) Herr Schneider.

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

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

12. What is the rabbi sewing on his clothes?
(a) Hidden pockets.
(b) Yellow stars of David.
(c) The swastika.
(d) Patches.

13. What does Schloime ask of God?
(a) Why God can not crush his enemies.
(b) Why God loves others but not the Jews.
(c) Why the Jews cannot find peace.
(d) Why God has forsaken him.

14. Why doesn't Friedrich meet with the girl as agreed upon?
(a) He worries she will turn him in.
(b) He is afraid for her safety.
(c) He forgets where they are to meet.
(d) He decides he does not like her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator's family members hear while they are in bed?

2. Where does the narrator's family sit in the shelter?

3. Where is Friedrich?

4. What does Dr. Levy place beside Frau Schneider's body?

5. What do they announce when the lights come on?

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