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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does the narrator's family sit in the shelter?
(a) In the room away from the door.
(b) Near the fresh air pump.
(c) Next to another family of the same age.
(d) As far away from Resch as possible.

4. 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) Have a bodyguard for Friedrich.
(d) His door repaired and the roses fixed.

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

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

7. Who gives Friedrich an engraved fountain pen?
(a) Frau Peng.
(b) The narrator.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) Neudorf.

8. About what does the narrator worry?
(a) The strain of keeping this terrible secret.
(b) That Friedrich will break under tortue and finger the narrator as an accomplice.
(c) That Friedrich will be killed.
(d) That the rabbi will be caught and killed.

9. Why does Friedrich leave his apartment?
(a) To pawn some goods from the apartment.
(b) To look for his father.
(c) For fear that Resch will call the police.
(d) To find some food.

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

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

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

13. What does the narrator's father advise Friedrich to do?
(a) Stay in the apartment during the air raid.
(b) Hide in the basement which is empty.
(c) Leave Germany if at all possible.
(d) Give himself up and hope for mercy.

14. What do the narrator's family members hear while they are in bed?
(a) Boot steps on the stairs.
(b) A scream.
(c) A song.
(d) Someone praying.

15. For what is Friedrich singled out for the first time in his life?
(a) To usher.
(b) To sing the psalm of the day.
(c) To carry the ark.
(d) To read publicly from the Torah.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are Schloime and Gitte?

2. Of what does Resch boast?

3. What name does Friedrich call Resch?

4. Where do the narrator and Friedrich go?

5. What does Friedrich do?

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