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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gretel’s answer when Bruno asks her in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case,” “What is foreseeable future exactly?”
(a) “It means a few months.”
(b) “It means in at least a year.”
(c) “It means weeks from now.”
(d) “It means just a few days.”

2. What does Maria tell Bruno she’d always enjoyed at the house in Berlin in Chapter Six: "The Overpaid Maid"?
(a) The basement.
(b) The garden.
(c) The attic.
(d) The banister.

3. Gretel’s conclusion about the “children” next door and where they have moved is what, in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window"?
(a) “This must be a prison.”
(b) “This must be a concentration camp.”
(c) “This must be the countryside.”
(d) “This must be Poland.”

4. The maid Maria is said to have come to work for Bruno’s family when Bruno was how old, in Chapter Six: "The Overpaid Maid"?
(a) 3 years old.
(b) 6 years old.
(c) 8 years old.
(d) 6 months old.

5. What is the young soldier carrying downstairs when Bruno first sees him in Chapter Two: "The New House"?
(a) A gun.
(b) A doll.
(c) A bouquet.
(d) A box.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Bruno takes his sister Gretel to look out of his bedroom window, Maria comes charging out carrying what in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"?

2. How many floors, including the basement, comprise Bruno’s family’s new home in Out-With?

3. How old is Gretel in the beginning of the novel?

4. One of the soldiers speaking to Bruno’s father is overheard in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions" saying, “We have lacked efficiency since the start of” what year?

5. What are the names of Gretel’s friends that she says she misses back in Berlin in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"?

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