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

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

3. Where does the narrator find Frau Schneider?
(a) In the kitchen finishing dinner.
(b) On the floor and blue in the face.
(c) On the veranda.
(d) She has been taken away.

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

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

6. Why does Herr Schneider knock on the narrator's door late at night?
(a) To ask that Friedrich be adopted by them.
(b) To borrow a lamp.
(c) To upbraid the narrator.
(d) To ask for the family to stay there.

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

8. Why does the narrator's family not sleep the night the rabbi and Herr Schneider are taken?
(a) Worrying they may be next.
(b) Wondering if Herr Resch will turn on them.
(c) Thinking about how far Germany has fallen morally.
(d) Because of worrying about Friedrich.

9. 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 find some food.
(d) To look for his father.

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

11. For what has the narrator been reprimanded?
(a) For consorting with a Jew.
(b) For refusing to see Friedrich anymore.
(c) For helping the mob smash Jewish homes.
(d) For skipping school too often.

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

13. What is the group of people doing that the narrator joins?
(a) Smashing and looting Jewish shops.
(b) Protesting the treatement of the Jews.
(c) Protesting the lack of jobs.
(d) Listening to Adolf Hitler.

14. How does the narrator's family know it is Friedrich at the door?
(a) They do not know.
(b) He calls to them softly.
(c) He gives them the special knock signal.
(d) He slips a paper under the door with his name on it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is led out in handcuffs?

2. Where is Friedrich?

3. What are the Germans required to do?

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

5. What does Friedrich give at the Sabbath feast?

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