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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Shmuel say he last saw his father in Chapter Eighteen: "Thinking Up the Final Adventure"?
(a) Friday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Tuesday.

2. 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"?
(a) A dead mouse.
(b) A suitcase.
(c) A feral cat.
(d) A dust cloth.

3. 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) During the Inquisition.
(b) The Middle Ages.
(c) Before Biblical days.
(d) Before this century.

4. What song is Bruno’s Grandmother said to have always sung at parties in Chapter Eight: "Why Grandmother Stormed Out"?
(a) Maria Elena.
(b) La Vie en Rose.
(c) My Sister and I.
(d) Song of the Volga Boatmen.

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"?
(a) He revised her paperwork so she would not appear Jewish.
(b) He paid for her medical care and funeral.
(c) He helped hide her from the Nazis.
(d) He sent her to Switzerland to recover.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bruno define his father’s office in the story, both in Berlin and in Out-With?

2. What does Gretel ask Maria to do when she enters Bruno’s room in Chapter Six: "The Overpaid Maid"?

3. What does Shmuel do for the first time in the end of Chapter Fifteen: "Something He Shouldn't Have Done"?

4. What is Bruno’s father’s title in the military?

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

(see the answer key)

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