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

2. For what has the narrator been reprimanded?
(a) For skipping school too often.
(b) For helping the mob smash Jewish homes.
(c) For consorting with a Jew.
(d) For refusing to see Friedrich anymore.

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. Where is Friedrich?
(a) At Helga's home.
(b) Hiding in the attic.
(c) He left for the United States.
(d) No one knows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the group of people doing that the narrator joins?

2. Where does the narrator's family sit in the shelter?

3. About what does the narrator worry?

4. What has a boy lost?

5. Why do they decide not to let Friedrich stay?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What does this second eviction notice suggest?

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

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

8. 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?

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

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

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