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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who do they open the shelter door to find?
(a) No one.
(b) Two elderly rabbis.
(c) Friedrich.
(d) A dog.

3. 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.

4. What does Friedrich's father give him?
(a) A new bike.
(b) A radio.
(c) A wristwatch.
(d) A copy of the torah.

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

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

7. What do the boys do while circling the town?
(a) Cry out "Heil Hitler" continuously.
(b) Run and chant.
(c) Stop and help people clean the sidewalks.
(d) Wear blindfolds.

8. What does the doctor advise Frau Schneider to do?
(a) Breathe gently while the sedative works.
(b) Look forward to many more years of life.
(c) Nothing; she is beyond advice.
(d) Confess her sins to her husband.

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

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

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

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

13. With what does Schuster order the boys to load their packs?
(a) Bricks.
(b) Books.
(c) Food.
(d) Survival gear.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Resch do when the narrator's family pounds on the locked shelter door?

2. What does Friedrich do?

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

4. How does Herr Schneider earn money?

5. For what does Friedrich ask?

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