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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. Who is Herr Schuster?
(a) The new landlord.
(b) A policeman.
(c) A commander of the Nazi storm troops.
(d) Friedrich's uncle.

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

3. What are the Germans required to do?
(a) Drill for the reserve army.
(b) Register for the draft.
(c) Give no business to those who attacked the Jews.
(d) Watch a movie titled Sweet Jew.

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

5. What does Herr Schneider start to say?
(a) "You were right, Herr..."
(b) "You are going to burn..."
(c) "You bas..."
(d) "Go to..."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich's father give him?

2. What does Herr Schneider pay to have done?

3. Of what does Resch boast?

4. What does Friedrich put on at the synagogue?

5. What is the rabbi sewing on his clothes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What demonstrates the fact that the narrator's family has not completely turned its backs on the Schneiders as so many other non-Jewish Germans have?

6. Tell the story of Solomon.

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

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

9. 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?

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

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