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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the town like after the air raid?
(a) In pretty good shape.
(b) About ten buildings are completely demolished.
(c) Only Resch's apartment building is left.
(d) In ruins.

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

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

7. What are the Germans required to do?
(a) Drill for the reserve army.
(b) Watch a movie titled Sweet Jew.
(c) Give no business to those who attacked the Jews.
(d) Register for the draft.

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

9. Who is Helga?
(a) His paternal aunt.
(b) His mother's only sibling.
(c) A girl with whom Friedrich falls in love.
(d) The new cleaning lady that the narrator's mother hires.

10. 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.

11. Of what does Friedrich's father warn Friedrich?
(a) The need to leave Germany.
(b) Getting interested in a girl.
(c) The need to be more circumspect.
(d) Being good to his aunt.

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

13. What does an usherette say to him as he is escorted out?
(a) Who is your father?
(b) Why do you want to see such a movie?
(c) Do you want to go to a concentration camp?
(d) Do you want to be arrested?

14. To where do the narrator and Friedrich pedal?
(a) To the military school.
(b) To the park.
(c) To the swimming pool.
(d) To the library.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opens the Schneider's door?

2. What does the narrator's mother think is wrong with Friedrich?

3. How does Friedrich meet Helga?

4. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

5. Why are Friedrich and his father having uncharacteristic arguments?

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