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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 find when he comes back to his apartment?
(a) The narrator crying in the middle of the living room.
(b) Blood all over the floor.
(c) Rats already taking over.
(d) Herr Resch ransacking the place.

2. Over what does Friedrich weep?
(a) Being hungry.
(b) The notice in the letter.
(c) His inability to go to school.
(d) His mother's death.

3. Who helps the rabbi thread a needle?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Friedrich.
(c) No one.
(d) Herr Schneider.

4. What does Resch do when the narrator's family pounds on the locked shelter door?
(a) Calls to ask his supervisor's advice.
(b) Tells the others that they can open it.
(c) Refuses to open it.
(d) Opens it.

5. What does the rabbi insist upon doing?
(a) Taking off the Star of David on his jacket.
(b) Saying the Sabbath prayers.
(c) Leaving the Schneider home.
(d) Meeting the narrator and thanking him.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Friedrich ask?

2. What does the sergeant say about the Allies?

3. What does Friedrich do?

4. What does Herr Schneider start to say?

5. What does the narrator find himself doing without thinking?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is rather ironic in this chapter and why?

2. What happens and what is the significance of it when Friedrich and the narrator are leaving the pool?

3. Tell the story of Solomon.

4. What is the narrator's ethical dilemma concerning this situation?

5. Who visits the Schneiders and what happens?

6. What do you think Schneider was doing by saying, "You were right, Herr..."?

7. Why do you think Friedrich would want to go see a movie that espouses hatred toward Jews?

8. What demonstrates the fact that the narrator's family has not completely turned its backs on the Schneiders as so many other non-Jewish Germans have?

9. What do you think Resch means when he says, "his luck that he died this way"?

10. Despite all that Friedrich has been through, what demonstrates his goodness?

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