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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Uri often deliver coal?
(a) To the Jackboots.
(b) To the orphanage.
(c) To the shops.
(d) To the bakery.

2. What happens to Misha's ear one night when he is at Janina's house?
(a) A Jackboot shoots him in the ear.
(b) Janina's father tugs him by the ear.
(c) Janina shoots him in the ear.
(d) A Jackboot tugs on his ear.

3. What is the narrator carrying at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Bread.
(b) Money.
(c) A comb.
(d) Butter.

4. What does Uri tell the narrator to do in relation to the Jackboots?
(a) To steal from them.
(b) To stay away from them.
(c) To stay close to them.
(d) To look up to them.

5. What do the boys in the stable think the narrator is?
(a) An orphan.
(b) A Jew.
(c) A Jackboot.
(d) A gypsy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Misha tell Uri he is glad about?

2. Who watches the narrator eat his tomato?

3. What does Uri tell Misha he believes in?

4. What does the train crash into?

5. Why were there people outside carrying shovels?

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