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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the names of Gretel’s friends that she says she misses back in Berlin in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"?
(a) Hilda, Isobel, and Louise.
(b) Jennifer, Michelle, and Jessica.
(c) Christine, Helga, and Katherine.
(d) Sara, Janet, and Opal.

2. How old is Gretel in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 14.
(d) 26.

3. What is the meaning of the word “ergo,” used in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions”?
(a) Hereto.
(b) Unless.
(c) Until.
(d) Therefore.

4. Gretel explains to Bruno in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case" that “Out-With” is the name of what?
(a) The garden.
(b) The town.
(c) The house.
(d) The country.

5. What is Bruno’s response when his father asks him in his office in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions,” “What do you think? … Of your new home. Do you like it?”
(a) “No. I think we should go home.”
(b) “Yes, Father. I love it here.”
(c) “I’m sure I’ll come to love it, Father.”
(d) “Are you sure we’ve come to the right place?”

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. What two words comprised the common Nazi salute during the Third Reich?

4. Gretel says in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window" that “Father hates” what?

5. What does Maria say that Bruno’s father did for her mother after Maria had been working for the family a short time in Chapter Six: "The Overpaid Maid"?

(see the answer key)

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