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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. How does Friedrich meet Helga?
(a) Her bag of apples splits and he helps her gather them up.
(b) She came to visit her sister's gravesite.
(c) His father invited her to visit.
(d) The narrator introduces them.

2. What do the narrator's family members hear while they are in bed?
(a) Boot steps on the stairs.
(b) Someone praying.
(c) A scream.
(d) A song.

3. Where do the narrator and Friedrich go?
(a) To watch the tanks go by on their way to Poland.
(b) To a skating rink.
(c) To the swimiming pool.
(d) To the movies.

4. Who opens the Schneider's door?
(a) The rabbi.
(b) Herr Schneider.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) Herr Resch.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do they announce when the lights come on?

2. What does Schloime ask of God?

3. Why does Friedrich leave his apartment?

4. What does the narrator take up to the Schneiders?

5. With whom does Friedrich nearly collide?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Friedrich's appearance suggest?

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

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

4. Tell the story of Solomon.

5. Who visits the Schneiders and what happens?

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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