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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) Taking off the Star of David on his jacket.
(c) Saying the Sabbath prayers.
(d) Leaving the Schneider home.

2. What does an usherette say to him as he is escorted out?
(a) Do you want to be arrested?
(b) Why do you want to see such a movie?
(c) Do you want to go to a concentration camp?
(d) Who is your father?

3. Why does Herr Schneider knock on the narrator's door late at night?
(a) To ask for the family to stay there.
(b) To upbraid the narrator.
(c) To borrow a lamp.
(d) To ask that Friedrich be adopted by them.

4. What do the boys do while circling the town?
(a) Cry out "Heil Hitler" continuously.
(b) Run and chant.
(c) Stop and help people clean the sidewalks.
(d) Wear blindfolds.

5. What name does Friedrich call Resch?
(a) SOB.
(b) Vulture.
(c) Bastard.
(d) Slimeball.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Herr Schneider start to say?

3. What does the narrator's family do when told to go inside their apartment?

4. What is the rabbi sewing on his clothes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when a Storm Trooper takes over the physical education of the German school boys during his spare time?

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

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

5. Describe the Jewish death ritual.

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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