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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 as Friedrich is eating?
(a) The sirens begin to wail.
(b) The police pound on the door.
(c) Friedrich slumps over dead asleep.
(d) Friedrich begins sobbing.

2. With what does Schuster order the boys to load their packs?
(a) Bricks.
(b) Books.
(c) Food.
(d) Survival gear.

3. What does Friedrich do?
(a) Still goes to school.
(b) Helps his dad collect junk.
(c) Works for the narrator's father.
(d) Fixes lamps.

4. What does the narrator's father advise Friedrich to do?
(a) Stay in the apartment during the air raid.
(b) Hide in the basement which is empty.
(c) Leave Germany if at all possible.
(d) Give himself up and hope for mercy.

5. Who are Schloime and Gitte?
(a) David's parents.
(b) Noah's parents.
(c) Solomon's parents.
(d) Elijah's parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator bring Herr Schneider?

2. What indications are there that the air raid siren is not a false alarm?

3. What does Resch do when the narrator's family pounds on the locked shelter door?

4. What does Herr Schneider start to say?

5. Why does Friedrich leave his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are these chants a perversion of Jewish historical events?

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

4. What does Friedrich's appearance suggest?

5. What happens when Friedrich tries to get into the shelter?

6. How is Friedrich initiated into manhood in his synagogue?

7. How is the name "Vulture" an apt one for Resch?

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

9. Why are Friedrich and his father having uncharacteristic arguments, and why is there tension in the apartment when the narrator goes up to take the Schneiders some potatoes?

10. Do you think Resch is more motivated by patriotism or greed when he turns in the Schneiders?

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