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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the people behind the fence said to be pushing from one side of the camp to the other in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window"?
(a) Mules.
(b) Wheelbarrows.
(c) Automobiles.
(d) Boulders.

2. What does Bruno question about the striped-pajama people on the other side of the fence in Chapter Nine: "Bruno Remembers that He Used to Enjoy Exploration"?
(a) He wonders why they appear to be killing one another.
(b) He wonders why they don’t stand at attention.
(c) He wonders why they are so dirty.
(d) He wonders why they are never invited to his house.

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

4. What color hair is Gretel said to have in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"?
(a) Black.
(b) Blond.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. By what name does Gretel call Lieutenant Kotler in Chapter Seven: "How Mother Took Credit for Something that She Hadn't Done"?

4. Bruno says in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window" that in Berlin on their quiet street they only had how many houses?

5. In the flashback to Christmas in Chapter Eight: "Why Grandmother Stormed Out,” what name does Grandmother call Bruno’s father?

(see the answer key)

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