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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 happens when Friedrich misses the ball that the narrator throws?
(a) The ball rolls down a hill into the water.
(b) A dog catches the ball.
(c) The ball breaks a store window.
(d) The ball hits a Nazi soldier.

2. What does Mr. Schneider offer the shop keeper?
(a) Money to fix the window.
(b) A valuable piece of jewelry.
(c) Help with organizing her shop.
(d) Nothing.

3. How would you characterize the teacher's tone?
(a) Angry at Germans.
(b) Accepting of Jews.
(c) Hatred of Jews.
(d) Riotious.

4. What has left Mr. Schneider?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hope.
(d) Courage.

5. What do the two boys do?
(a) Go off to the park so as not to disturb the adults.
(b) Pretend they do not see Mr. Schneider.
(c) Query Mr. Schneider as to the problem.
(d) The narrator goes to his apartment and Friedrich accompanies his father to his apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a serious talk?

2. Who does the judge suggest the Nazis may turn against next?

3. Why does the housekeeper work?

4. What does the landlord want?

5. What has Resch been for a year?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why do you think Friedrich says "Heil, Hitler" outside the department store?

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

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

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

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

8. What does the narrator say when Herr Schneider asks him about the Jungvolk and how does Herr Schneider respond to the narrator's reply?

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

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

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