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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 Herr Schneider learn?
(a) That he is being evicted again.
(b) That he is can no longer live in this town.
(c) That he may have a job in Dusseldorf.
(d) That he is being sent to a camp.

2. What has Friedrich lost?
(a) His best agate marble.
(b) The tag to his clothes.
(c) His id.
(d) His bike.

3. Where does the narrator find Frau Schneider?
(a) In the kitchen finishing dinner.
(b) On the floor and blue in the face.
(c) On the veranda.
(d) She has been taken away.

4. What does the narrator's family do when told to go inside their apartment?
(a) Go inside.
(b) Spit on Herr Resch.
(c) Stand where they are.
(d) Try to attack the policeman.

5. Of what does Resch boast?
(a) German power.
(b) His position of authority.
(c) His wealth.
(d) His meeting with Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Herr Schneider knock on the narrator's door late at night?

2. The narrator picks what up and uses it?

3. Why does the narrator's family not sleep the night the rabbi and Herr Schneider are taken?

4. Why does Friedrich leave his apartment?

5. What is the rabbi sewing on his clothes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the narrator returns home and how does his response present a different side of the narrator?

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

3. What does the narrator do with the mob and why do you think he is capable of those acts when his best friend is Jewish?

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

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

6. How does the ending of the chapter then bring the readers right back into the horror of "real" life?

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

8. What does this second eviction notice suggest?

9. What is ironic about the prayer that Scholoime is reciting at his death?

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

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