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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 sounds does Misha think he hears in the middle of the night?
(a) The music of the merry-go-round.
(b) The music of his past.
(c) The sounds of bombs.
(d) The sounds of gunshots.

2. What does the Jewish armband look like?
(a) White with a yellow square.
(b) White with a red circle.
(c) White with a blue star.
(d) White with a green heart.

3. What do the Jackboots make the Jews do for hours on end?
(a) Fight each other.
(b) Work in a factory.
(c) Sit on their hands.
(d) Stand at attention.

4. Where do the boys go after the stable is invaded?
(a) Germany.
(b) The ghetto.
(c) The merry-go-round.
(d) The orphanage.

5. What happens to the first jar of fish that Misha finds while in the ghetto?
(a) He loses it.
(b) He drops it.
(c) He eats the whole thing.
(d) It gets stolen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Jews walking in the parade headed?

2. What does Misha do when he rides the horses?

3. Why were there people outside carrying shovels?

4. What does Misha do on the night he makes a discovery about the wall?

5. What tombstone fascinates Misha in the cemetery?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who comes into the stable one morning, in Chapter 17, and force the boys out?

4. What does the narrator say his name is at the beginning of the novel, and why?

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

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

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

8. Where does Misha take the roasted rats he steals?

9. What did Misha find in the stable the first night that Uri took him?

10. What does Misha start doing with Janina after her birthday party?

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