View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do they announce when the lights come on?
(a) That there is an air raid.
(b) That all ID's must be checked.
(c) That Germany has declared war.
(d) That those who are under 12 must have a parent with them.

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. What does Schloime ask of God?
(a) Why God can not crush his enemies.
(b) Why God has forsaken him.
(c) Why God loves others but not the Jews.
(d) Why the Jews cannot find peace.

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

8. The narrator picks what up and uses it?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A canister of tear gas.
(c) A bullhorn.
(d) A pistol.

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

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

11. With whom does Friedrich nearly collide?
(a) With the narrator's father.
(b) With someone coming the other way on a fine silvery bicycle.
(c) With Mr. Rosenthal.
(d) With the local leader of the Jungvolk.

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

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

14. Why does the narrator's family not sleep the night the rabbi and Herr Schneider are taken?
(a) Thinking about how far Germany has fallen morally.
(b) Worrying they may be next.
(c) Because of worrying about Friedrich.
(d) Wondering if Herr Resch will turn on them.

15. What does Schuster do?
(a) He raises the rent.
(b) He assaults the narrator's father.
(c) He pushes the boys unmercifully as their physical education teacher.
(d) He flees Germany for France.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich give at the Sabbath feast?

2. How does Friedrich meet Helga?

3. What does Solomon do?

4. What does Friedrich do to Resch?

5. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 548 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample