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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What covers the walls in Bruno’s father’s office in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions"?
(a) Maps and battle plans.
(b) Mahogany bookshelves.
(c) Dark draperies.
(d) Photographs of Hitler.

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

3. The soldier that Bruno sees leave his parents room in Chapter Two: "The New House" is described as having what color hair?
(a) Blond.
(b) Black.
(c) Gray.
(d) Red.

4. The oak tree that Bruno finds and decides to put a tire swing in is so old that he imagines it must have been planted when, according to the narrator in Chapter Seven: "How Mother Took Credit for Something that She Hadn't Done"?
(a) Before this century.
(b) Before Biblical days.
(c) During the Inquisition.
(d) The Middle Ages.

5. Bruno angers his father in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions" by suggesting that his father do what?
(a) Send him to live with Grandmother.
(b) Apologize to the Fury.
(c) Divorce his mother.
(d) Move to the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. Maria tells Bruno in Chapter Six: "The Overpaid Maid,” “We must all just keep ourselves safe until this is all over. That’s what I intend to do anyway. What more can we do than that after all? It’s not up to us to” what?

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?

3. Bruno says of his father and all fathers in Chapter Two: "The New House" that “fathers are supposed to be” what?

4. What is Gretel’s answer when Bruno asks her in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case,” “What is foreseeable future exactly?”

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?

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