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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. Who is led out in handcuffs?
(a) The rabbi and Herr Schneider.
(b) Friedrich and the rabbi.
(c) Herr Schneider and Friedrich.
(d) The rabbi only.

2. For what does Friedrich ask?
(a) For them to help him kill himself.
(b) The photograph of the two families at the park many years ago.
(c) For a bundle of food so he can flee Germany.
(d) To be able to sleep there that night.

3. Who does the rabbi say will help him further?
(a) No one.
(b) A German soldier whose life the rabbi saved.
(c) Other friends.
(d) His wife's family.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the boys do next?

2. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?

3. What does Schloime ask of God?

4. Who gives Friedrich an engraved fountain pen?

5. To where do the narrator and Friedrich pedal?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What about this chapter shows a different side of Friedrich's life?

4. Describe the Jewish death ritual.

5. Who visits the Schneiders and what happens?

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

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

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

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

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

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