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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Resch boast?

2. What does Schuster do?

3. What do the boys do next?

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

5. About what does the narrator worry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Tell the story of Solomon.

2. What does this second eviction notice suggest?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is the narrator's ethical dilemma concerning this situation?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the chapter titled "The Cleaning Lady," Frau Penk apologetically responds that she had planned on coming to tell Frau Schneider that she can no longer work for her. Answer the following questions and write a well-developed, cohesive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:

1. Why can Frau Penk no longer work for the Schneiders? Is this fair?

2. Do you think Frau Penk should ignore the law and do what she thinks is right? Why or why not?

3. Are there any alternatives to Frau Penk just quitting?

4. Frau Penk says her husband used to be a communist and therefore they have to be very careful. What do you think she means by this?

5. What would you do in Frau Penk's place?

Essay Topic 2

When Friedrich and the narrator are bathed together, the narrator's mother jokes about Friedrich being Jewish. Choose one of the following questions in a well-developed, cohesive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:

1. What does it mean to be Jewish? Is it a cultural, racial, or religious designation...or some combination of the three?

2. What contributions have the Jewish people made to humanity over the last 1000 years?

3. Compare and contrast the major beliefs of the Jewish faith with Christianity.

Essay Topic 3

In the chapter titled, "The Hearing," the Judge tells Resch's attorney he sees no legal ground for evicting the Schneiders. the following questions and write a well-developed, cohesive essay using examples from the text and your research or personal experience:

1. Research pre-WWII Germany and learn about the legal, political and human resistance to Hitler's growing repression and control of Germany.

2. How much resistance is offered? Who offered the most--religious institutions? Social institutions? Political groups?

3. How do those groups oppose Hitler? Protests? Legal injunctions? Elections?

4. Why do you think those groups/individuals fail to halt Hitler's advance to power?

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