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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mr. Schneider look when he waves goodbye to the boys?
(a) Angry.
(b) He is no longer smiling.
(c) Jolly.
(d) Optimistic.

2. What teacher asks his students to remain after school in his class?
(a) Herr Reichter.
(b) Mr. Rosenthal.
(c) Herr Jakob.
(d) Teacher Neudorf.

3. What does the teacher tell the students?
(a) That they must all join Jungvolk.
(b) That school is no longer going to meet.
(c) A brief history of the Jews and the persecution they have endured.
(d) That war is coming and they must start thinking like soldiers.

4. What does the narrator's father confess?
(a) That he has joined the Nazi party.
(b) That his son is going to military school.
(c) That he has turned in the Schneiders as Jews.
(d) That he is leaving Germany.

5. What does the store owner call Friedrich?
(a) Nothing.
(b) A rotten Jungvolk.
(c) "Good-for-nothing Jewboy."
(d) A bad catcher.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do the children tease Mr. Rosenthal?

2. Why did Jews flee to Poland and Russia?

3. Where does the narrator take Friedrich?

4. With what does the the shop owner threaten Friedrich?

5. What does the narrator's father find after joining the Nazi party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the landlord's reason for telling the Schneiders they have to vacate and does the reason seem fair?

2. What are the indications that the narrator's family is not as well to do as Friedich's family?

3. How does Friedrich's relationship with his mother contrast to that of the narrator's relationship with his mother?

4. What first appears in this chapter and what is the context?

5. What does Friedrich do after the verdict and what is the judge's response? Why do you think Friedrich responds the way he does?

6. What is ominous about the image of Herr Schneider coming down the street and the news he brings?

7. Who is Dr. Jakob Askenase and what is significant about the boys' visit there in this chapter?

8. Explain the situation with Frau Penk and why she gives up her position with Mrs. Schneider.

9. Describe how the window is broken. Do you think the narrator shows courage in taking responsibility for breaking the window or is lying never acceptable?

10. Describe the proceedings in the court and their implications.

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