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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. Why did Jews flee to Poland and Russia?
(a) Because they had a freedom of religion act.
(b) Because there was lots of opportunity there.
(c) Because they didn't know where else to go.
(d) To avoid death at the hands of the crusaders.

2. With what does Friedrich win over the narrator?
(a) A cuckoo whistle.
(b) A toy tank.
(c) His winsome grin.
(d) A doll with real hair.

3. Who will no longer be allowed to attend the school?
(a) No one is barred from attending school.
(b) Both Friedrich and the narrator because they are now in a different district.
(c) Friedrich, because he is a Jew.
(d) The narrator because he's poor.

4. Where is the narrator's apartment?
(a) In London.
(b) In the Resch home.
(c) In Bonn.
(d) In a small village.

5. What violates Nazi ideology?
(a) Being blond haired, blue-eyed.
(b) Having Jews as tenants.
(c) Going to the Lutheren church.
(d) Being unfair to unemployed tenants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother do while his father is looking for a job?

2. For what does the narrator's father pay?

3. What does the teacher tell the students?

4. When questioned as to his motives, what does the landlord reply?

5. Who has a serious talk?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does this situation with Frau Penk demonstrate?

5. What does the narrator's father do that is equally as courageous as what his son does in the last chapter?

6. Describe Friedrich's preparations for his first visit to a meeting of the Jungvolk.

7. Summarize what the teacher says about Jewish history.

8. How does the narrator describe the Jewish Sabbath dinner at Friedrich's home? What does this indicate to the reader?

9. Describe the first encounter the narrator remembers between him and Friedrich.

10. Do you think Herr Schneider should have listened to the narrator's father about leaving Germany?

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