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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Bruno when his mother told him about the local “madman’s” terrible injury during the Great War and how it led to his madness?
(a) 6 years old.
(b) 7 years old.
(c) 8 years old.
(d) 3 years old.

2. What does Bruno consider to be the best thing about his house in Berlin, according to the author in Chapter One: "Bruno Makes a Discovery"?
(a) The moat.
(b) The banister.
(c) The tree house.
(d) The garden.

3. Gretel’s conclusion about the “children” next door and where they have moved is what, in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window"?
(a) “This must be a prison.”
(b) “This must be Poland.”
(c) “This must be a concentration camp.”
(d) “This must be the countryside.”

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

5. What is the name of the tutor who arrives to teach Bruno and Gretel in Chapter Nine: "Bruno Remembers that He Used to Enjoy Exploration"?
(a) Herr Liszt.
(b) Herr Rosswald.
(c) Herr Lindt.
(d) Herr Roller.

6. What is Gretel’s answer when Bruno asks her in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case,” “What is foreseeable future exactly?”
(a) “It means a few months.”
(b) “It means in at least a year.”
(c) “It means just a few days.”
(d) “It means weeks from now.”

7. What are the names of Gretel’s friends that she says she misses back in Berlin in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"?
(a) Hilda, Isobel, and Louise.
(b) Sara, Janet, and Opal.
(c) Christine, Helga, and Katherine.
(d) Jennifer, Michelle, and Jessica.

8. Gretel says in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window" that “Father hates” what?
(a) “Modern things.”
(b) “Politics.”
(c) “Jews.”
(d) “German things.”

9. Where does Bruno find the rope needed to build his tire swing in Chapter Seven: "How Mother Took Credit for Something that She Hadn't Done"?
(a) In Gretel’s room.
(b) The basement.
(c) In the shed.
(d) The attic.

10. 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"?
(a) “Number seven.”
(b) “Number four.”
(c) “Number six.”
(d) “Number five.”

11. What is described on the armband worn by the boy that Bruno meets on the other side of the fence in Chapter Ten: "The Dot that Became a Speck that Became a Blob that Became a Figure that Became a Boy"?
(a) A star.
(b) A swastika.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A heart.

12. What Italian explorer and cartographer, who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts, does Bruno describe learning about in Chapter Nine: "Bruno Remembers that He Used to Enjoy Exploration"?
(a) Christopher Columbus.
(b) Charles Albanel.
(c) Pêro de Alenquer.
(d) Amerigo Vespucci.

13. 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 the wind blowing.”
(b) “It sounds like logs crackling in a warm fireplace.”
(c) “It sounds like someone who’s rubbing their arms to keep warm.”
(d) “It sounds like a car screeching on pavement.”

14. One of the soldiers speaking to Bruno’s father is overheard in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions" saying, “We have lacked efficiency since the start of” what year?
(a) “Forty.”
(b) “Sixty-one.”
(c) “Thirty-eight.”
(d) “Forty-two.”

15. The bronze plaque on the bench that Bruno spies from his window states that “Out-With Camp” was established when?
(a) June 1940.
(b) July 1942.
(c) September 1938.
(d) July 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the names of the three best friends of Bruno’s that he must leave behind in Berlin?

2. What does Bruno perceive all of the people to be wearing at the camp across the fence in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window"?

3. What Italian explorer, credited with first discovering the Americas, does Bruno describe learning about from his tutor in Chapter Nine: "Bruno Remembers that He Used to Enjoy Exploration"?

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

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

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