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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lieutenant Kotler is said to wear a great deal of what in Chapter Seven: "How Mother Took Credit for Something that She Hadn't Done"?
(a) Purple medals.
(b) Silver jewelry.
(c) Cologne.
(d) Sunscreen.

2. How far in the future does Bruno’s father say that Bruno, Gretel and their mother will return to Berlin in Chapter Seventeen: "Mother Gets Her Own Way"?
(a) Within the year.
(b) In two weeks.
(c) Next month.
(d) Within the week.

3. Whom does Bruno recall his mother having said they “never should have let come to dinner” in his memory of leaving their home in Berlin in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions"?
(a) “Grandfather.”
(b) “Grandmother.”
(c) “The Fury.”
(d) “The President.”

4. Bruno tells Shmuel in Chapter Ten: "The Dot that Became a Speck that Became a Blob that Became a Figure that Became a Boy" that his name sounds like what?
(a) “It sounds like someone who’s rubbing their arms to keep warm.”
(b) “It sounds like logs crackling in a warm fireplace.”
(c) “It sounds like a car screeching on pavement.”
(d) “It sounds like the wind blowing.”

5. 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) “Stupid.”
(b) “A Nazi.”
(c) “A jerk.”
(d) “A pest.”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?”

2. What is no longer displayed in Gretel’s room in Chapter Sixteen: "The Haircut"?

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

4. 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"?

5. Bruno says alone to himself in his room in the beginning of Chapter Six: "The Overpaid Maid,” “I hate this house, I hate my room and I even hate” what?

(see the answer key)

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