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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 Friedrich do with his candy?
(a) Hoards it in his room.
(b) Drops it out the window by accident.
(c) Gives it back to the baker as he does not like it.
(d) Shares with everyone.

2. About what do the children tease Mr. Rosenthal?
(a) Nothing.
(b) About his yarmulka.
(c) About looking like a goat.
(d) About the color of his eyes.

3. Where do Friedrich and the narrator go in the department store?
(a) Friedrich's father's office.
(b) The toy floor.
(c) The basement bargains.
(d) The boy's clothing to meet their mothers.

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 does the officer tell the narrator?
(a) He is too young to understand how sneaky and dishonest the Jews are.
(b) To go home and be quiet.
(c) To stick up for Friedrich.
(d) To pay the shop owner.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator's family prepare for the grandfather's visit?

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

3. Why did Jews flee to Poland and Russia?

4. Who does housework for the Schneiders?

5. What teacher asks his students to remain after school in his class?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does this situation with Frau Penk demonstrate?

3. What may be foreshadowing a future of terror and death for Jews?

4. What is the first couple of indications in this book that this story will have something to do with the persecution of the Jewish people?

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

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

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

8. Summarize what the teacher says about Jewish history.

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

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

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