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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 indications are there that the air raid siren is not a false alarm?
(a) A policeman with a bullhorn is yelling to the residents.
(b) A piece of tree limb flies into the window.
(c) Anti-aircraft guns thunder; searchlights sway across the sky, planes hum, and shrapnel falls.
(d) The apartment building is shaking.

2. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?
(a) With a scream.
(b) By covering his mouth with her hand.
(c) By asking him to hush.
(d) With a kiss.

3. With what does Schuster order the boys to load their packs?
(a) Food.
(b) Bricks.
(c) Books.
(d) Survival gear.

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

5. What does the rabbi say he understands?
(a) The danger to the narrator's family.
(b) The way of the peaceful warrior.
(c) The fact that his life may end soon.
(d) The reasons the Germans hate the Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Herr Schneider earn money?

2. What does the narrator's mother try to do for Frau Schneider?

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

4. For what does Friedrich ask?

5. How is the narrator's home?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 does Friedrich's family celebrate his Bar Mitzvah?

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

6. What does Friedrich's appearance suggest?

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

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

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