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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 the rabbi insist upon doing?
(a) Meeting the narrator and thanking him.
(b) Leaving the Schneider home.
(c) Taking off the Star of David on his jacket.
(d) Saying the Sabbath prayers.

2. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?
(a) Studying together since neither are allowed in school.
(b) Learning how to speak Yiddish.
(c) Walking throught the park on little-used paths.
(d) Taking her to the movies.

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

4. What does Schloime ask of God?
(a) Why God loves others but not the Jews.
(b) Why God can not crush his enemies.
(c) Why God has forsaken him.
(d) Why the Jews cannot find peace.

5. What does Solomon do?
(a) Kills himself.
(b) Goes to another land.
(c) Starves to death.
(d) Kills the soldiers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich put on at the synagogue?

2. What does Herr Schneider learn?

3. How is Friedrich?

4. What is the town like after the air raid?

5. Who helps the rabbi thread a needle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the ending of the chapter then bring the readers right back into the horror of "real" life?

2. 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?

3. Despite all that Friedrich has been through, what demonstrates his goodness?

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

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

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 the narrator's ethical dilemma concerning this situation?

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

10. What does Friedrich speak about and what does he ask of the narrator's family? What do you think is the reason for his request?

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