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

3. The narrator picks what up and uses it?
(a) A bullhorn.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A canister of tear gas.

4. How does the narrator's family show its continued concern for Friedrich?
(a) The draw a bath for him and give him clean clothes.
(b) They hug him and cry.
(c) They give him all their money.
(d) They off to take him with them to the air raid shelter.

5. Of what does Friedrich's father warn Friedrich?
(a) The need to be more circumspect.
(b) Getting interested in a girl.
(c) Being good to his aunt.
(d) The need to leave Germany.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Helga?

2. What does Resch pick up?

3. What does Friedrich find when he comes back to his apartment?

4. With what does Schuster order the boys to load their packs?

5. Where is Friedrich?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who visits the Schneiders and what happens?

2. What does this second eviction notice suggest?

3. 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?

4. Describe the Jewish death ritual.

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

6. 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?

7. Tell the story of Solomon.

8. What is rather ironic in this chapter and why?

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

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?

(see the answer keys)

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