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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 kind of vehicle does Uri and Misha jump onto?
(a) A streetcar.
(b) A tank.
(c) A car.
(d) A bicycle.

2. What do the men in the black coats do on the street?
(a) They make fun of the Jackboots.
(b) They are tormented by the Jackboots.
(c) They run from the Jackboots.
(d) They join the Jackboots and torment Jews.

3. What does the narrator tell the Jackboots who are standing by the bearded men?
(a) That he wants to be one of them someday.
(b) To go to tell.
(c) To bring them to the barbershop where they live.
(d) That he does not like what they are doing.

4. Who comes and collects Misha when he rides the horses?
(a) Uri.
(b) Doctor Korczak.
(c) Enos.
(d) A Jackboot.

5. What does Misha do when he rides the horses?
(a) He rides for hours on end.
(b) He never rides the horses.
(c) He rides every single horse.
(d) He only rides one horse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Uri give the narrator?

2. What do the Jackboots' shoes look like?

3. Who does the crowd standing around the horses accuse of ruining it?

4. Who does Misha spot in the parade to the ghetto?

5. What kind of physical makeover does Uri give Misha?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the significance of the yellow stone necklace that hangs on Misha's neck?

4. What does Misha come across in the cemetery?

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

6. What happens to the merry-go-round the morning after Misha sneaks out to ride it?

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

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

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

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

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