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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bruno’s father do when he becomes angry at Bruno’s suggestion in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions"?
(a) He slaps Bruno on the face.
(b) He spanks Bruno.
(c) He sends Bruno to the cellar.
(d) He sends Bruno to his room.

2. The narrator notes in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window" that “Hilda had been told time and time again that she was not to call her brother” what?
(a) “A pest.”
(b) “A Nazi.”
(c) “Stupid.”
(d) “A jerk.”

3. How many floors, including the basement, comprise Bruno’s family’s new home in Out-With?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

4. How does Bruno define his father’s office in the story, both in Berlin and in Out-With?
(a) “A Place Where Top Priority Business Occurs.”
(b) “Enter At Your Own Risk.”
(c) “On Strict Orders of the Fury.”
(d) “Out Of Bounds At All Times And No Exceptions.”

5. 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?
(a) “Thirty-eight.”
(b) “Forty-two.”
(c) “Sixty-one.”
(d) “Forty.”

Short Answer Questions

1. Bruno’s family’s house in Berlin “didn’t even have a name; it was just called” what, according to the narrator in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"?

2. What had been Bruno’s grandmother’s employment in her youth?

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

4. What does Maria tell Bruno she’d always enjoyed at the house in Berlin in Chapter Six: "The Overpaid Maid"?

5. 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"?

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