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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 8 years old.
(b) 3 years old.
(c) 6 months old.
(d) 6 years old.

2. How old is Bruno in the beginning of the novel?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 7.
(d) 8.

3. 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) “I’m sure I’ll come to love it, Father.”
(c) “Yes, Father. I love it here.”
(d) “Are you sure we’ve come to the right place?”

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

5. 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) Gray.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can Gretel not see “the children” from her own bedroom window in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"?

2. How long ago had the Fury been to Bruno’s house in the opening of Chapter One: "Bruno Makes a Discovery"?

3. Gretel is how many years older than Bruno in the novel?

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. Whose father is described as a green-grocer in Chapter One: "Bruno Makes a Discovery"?

(see the answer key)

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