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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 is the narrator's home?
(a) Completely unharmed.
(b) Still standing but the windows are shattered.
(c) It is not revealed.
(d) Gone.

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

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

4. Why doesn't Friedrich meet with the girl as agreed upon?
(a) He worries she will turn him in.
(b) He is afraid for her safety.
(c) He forgets where they are to meet.
(d) He decides he does not like her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schuster do?

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

3. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

4. What are the Germans required to do?

5. What does Solomon do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is ironic about the way Resch treats his garden polycarp in contrast to how he treats Friedrich?

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

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 happens in the last paragraphs of this chapter that suggests that the average non-Jewish German does know about the concentration camps and what is significant about the author including this idea?

6. What do you think Resch means when he says, "his luck that he died this way"?

7. Who visits the Schneiders and what happens?

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

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

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

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