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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 the narrator bring Herr Schneider?
(a) A small heater.
(b) A dozen candles.
(c) A cooked chicken.
(d) A letter mistakenly delivered to the narrator's house.

2. What does Solomon do?
(a) Kills the soldiers.
(b) Kills himself.
(c) Starves to death.
(d) Goes to another land.

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

4. What does Friedrich's father give him?
(a) A copy of the torah.
(b) A wristwatch.
(c) A new bike.
(d) A radio.

5. For what does Friedrich ask?
(a) For them to help him kill himself.
(b) To be able to sleep there that night.
(c) The photograph of the two families at the park many years ago.
(d) For a bundle of food so he can flee Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what is Friedrich singled out for the first time in his life?

2. What happens as Friedrich is eating?

3. What does the rabbi say he understands?

4. How is Friedrich?

5. Who is Herr Schuster?

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 foreshadowed in the first part of this chapter?

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. What about this chapter shows a different side of Friedrich's life?

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

6. What happens when a Storm Trooper takes over the physical education of the German school boys during his spare time?

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

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

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

10. What does this second eviction notice suggest?

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