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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Friedrich meet Helga?
(a) The narrator introduces them.
(b) Her bag of apples splits and he helps her gather them up.
(c) His father invited her to visit.
(d) She came to visit her sister's gravesite.

3. 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.

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

5. What does the attendant do?
(a) Calls the police.
(b) Tears up Friedrich's id.
(c) Slaps Friedrich for swimming in the pool.
(d) Refuses to allow Friedrich to change in the locker room.

6. Where is Friedrich?
(a) In the back yard.
(b) On the stoop.
(c) No where to be seen.
(d) In the narrator's apartment.

7. 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.

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

9. Where is Friedrich?
(a) He left for the United States.
(b) At Helga's home.
(c) No one knows.
(d) Hiding in the attic.

10. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?
(a) With a scream.
(b) With a kiss.
(c) By asking him to hush.
(d) By covering his mouth with her hand.

11. Who is Herr Schuster?
(a) Friedrich's uncle.
(b) A commander of the Nazi storm troops.
(c) The new landlord.
(d) A policeman.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich find when he comes back to his apartment?

2. About whom does the rabbi tell a story?

3. Who gives Friedrich an engraved fountain pen?

4. What happens as Friedrich is eating?

5. Why do they decide not to let Friedrich stay?

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