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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friedrich give at the Sabbath feast?
(a) A silver coin to each person present.
(b) A warm welcome.
(c) A toast to the narrator.
(d) A grown-up speech.

2. Where do the narrator and Friedrich go?
(a) To a skating rink.
(b) To the movies.
(c) To the swimiming pool.
(d) To watch the tanks go by on their way to Poland.

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

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

5. What does the narrator take up to the Schneiders?
(a) Some potatoes.
(b) Another letter from the landlord.
(c) An armful of wood.
(d) Some ice.

6. What does Friedrich put on at the synagogue?
(a) A choir robe.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A woven belt.
(d) His yarmulke (skullcap) and tallis (prayer shawl).

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

8. What does the narrator tell his mother about his activities?
(a) That he was with schoolboys at the pool.
(b) That he was staying after school to help the teacher.
(c) That he was listening to Hitler who was mesmerizing.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

11. What does the narrator bring Herr Schneider?
(a) A dozen candles.
(b) A cooked chicken.
(c) A letter mistakenly delivered to the narrator's house.
(d) A small heater.

12. What does Friedrich find when he comes back to his apartment?
(a) Rats already taking over.
(b) Blood all over the floor.
(c) Herr Resch ransacking the place.
(d) The narrator crying in the middle of the living room.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Friedrich tries to run out of the theater, who stops him?

2. What does Friedrich do?

3. Who are Schloime and Gitte?

4. Why doesn't Friedrich meet with the girl as agreed upon?

5. What does Herr Schneider learn?

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