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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 Schuster do?
(a) He pushes the boys unmercifully as their physical education teacher.
(b) He flees Germany for France.
(c) He raises the rent.
(d) He assaults the narrator's father.

2. What has a boy lost?
(a) Some money.
(b) His silver bike.
(c) His dog.
(d) His best shoes.

3. How is Friedrich?
(a) He is fine and had just fallen asleep.
(b) He is alive, but hurt.
(c) It is never told what happens to him.
(d) He is dead.

4. What name does Friedrich call Resch?
(a) Slimeball.
(b) Vulture.
(c) SOB.
(d) Bastard.

5. What does Schuster demand of the boys when he sees Friedrich?
(a) That they run around him in circles to intimidate him.
(b) Demands his boys show what Germans do to inferior Jews.
(c) That they pretend not to see him.
(d) That they spit on Friedrich.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Friedrich and his father having uncharacteristic arguments?

2. For what does Friedrich ask?

3. What does Herr Schneider learn?

4. What does an usherette say to him as he is escorted out?

5. With whom does Friedrich nearly collide?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

7. What is foreshadowed in the first part of this chapter?

8. What does Friedrich's appearance suggest?

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

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

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