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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 Friedrich do?
(a) Still goes to school.
(b) Helps his dad collect junk.
(c) Fixes lamps.
(d) Works for the narrator's father.

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

3. What does the attendant do?
(a) Calls the police.
(b) Tears up Friedrich's id.
(c) Refuses to allow Friedrich to change in the locker room.
(d) Slaps Friedrich for swimming in the pool.

4. What is the group of people doing that the narrator joins?
(a) Listening to Adolf Hitler.
(b) Smashing and looting Jewish shops.
(c) Protesting the lack of jobs.
(d) Protesting the treatement of the Jews.

5. What does the narrator take up to the Schneiders?
(a) An armful of wood.
(b) Some potatoes.
(c) Another letter from the landlord.
(d) Some ice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Friedrich lost?

2. What does Schloime ask of God?

3. How is Friedrich?

4. What do the boys do while circling the town?

5. What does the narrator find himself doing without thinking?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Jewish death ritual.

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

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

4. What does this second eviction notice suggest?

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. How does Friedrich's family celebrate his Bar Mitzvah?

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