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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 name does Uri give the narrator?
(a) Ferdi.
(b) Olek.
(c) Mike.
(d) Misha.

2. What does Janina's uncle call their new home?
(a) A mansion.
(b) A closet.
(c) A shed.
(d) A pig sty.

3. What does one man in a black coat do with his beard?
(a) He tries to eat it.
(b) He scrubs the sidewalk with it.
(c) He shampoos it on the street.
(d) He chops it off.

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 look up to them.
(d) To stay close to them.

5. What does Uri tell Misha he believes in?
(a) Bread.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the merry-go-round the day after Misha rides it?

2. What does Misha realize about himself after the Jackboots point it out?

3. What do the Jackboots make the Jews do for hours on end?

4. What color hair does the boy who finds the narrator at the beginning of the novel have?

5. What kind of vehicle does Uri and Misha jump onto?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Misha find living at Janina's house one day?

2. What foods do Uri and Misha love?

3. Who does Misha see in the parade that leads the Jews to the ghetto?

4. What does Misha discover in the brick wall that separates the ghetto from the rest of the city?

5. What are the men in black coats doing on the first day of the parade?

6. What carnival ride does Misha discover near the orphanage?

7. What happens when Misha runs headfirst into another boy after he stole cream puffs from a woman on the street?

8. Who does Misha wake up to find in the stable one morning?

9. What happens to Misha's ear one night when he sneaks out to Janina's house?

10. What did the boys think of Misha when he first met them?

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