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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. What does the narrator do with his candy?
(a) Shares with everyone.
(b) Throws in down the trash chute because he's angry.
(c) Eats it.
(d) Starts to share, but his mother motions him to wait.

2. How does the narrator explain the bumping noise above?
(a) By saying it is Friedrich.
(b) Saying they are rats in the walls.
(c) By pretending he does not hear the noise.
(d) By running upstairs to tell them to be quiet.

3. Who has a serious talk?
(a) The narrator's father and Mr. Schneider.
(b) The narrator's father and the narrator.
(c) Mr. Schneider and the narrator.
(d) The narrator's father and Friedrich.

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

5. How does Mr. Schneider answer the narrator's father?
(a) That there is nowhere else to go.
(b) That he has no money to spend.
(c) That the Jewish quarter is full.
(d) That he will stop so as not to endanger the narrator's family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the two boys do?

2. What do the narrator and Friedrich think about the landlord's demand?

3. Who does the landlord ask to witness his conversation with Mr. Schneider?

4. What image strikes the narrator?

5. Who clears the snow?

Short Essay Questions

1. What indications are there that Friedrich and his mother enjoy a good relationship?

2. What does this scene about the broken window portend?

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

4. Summarize what the teacher says about Jewish history.

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

6. Describe the grandfather's visit to the narrator's household.

7. What is the date and setting and milieu at the opening of this novel and what major characters are introduced?

8. What sort of celebration is there on the first day of school?

9. Describe the conversation between Herr Schneider and the narrator's father about the Nazi party. Do you think the narrator's father is justified in joining the party?

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

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