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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how long do the Fury and his date stay at Bruno’s family’s home for dinner in Chapter Eleven: "The Fury"?
(a) 4 hours.
(b) 5 hours.
(c) 3 hours.
(d) 2 hours.

2. How many glasses are in Bruno’s mother’s fancy set that are being cleaned for the party in Chapter Fifteen: "Something He Shouldn't Have Done"?
(a) 12.
(b) 26.
(c) 64.
(d) 50.

3. What is the name of the pirate in Bruno’s book in Chapter Fifteen: "Something He Shouldn't Have Done"?
(a) Long John Silver.
(b) Dread Pirate Roberts.
(c) Nathaniel Butler.
(d) Sir Andrew Barton.

4. What does Bruno decide to make a list of in Chapter Fifteen: "Something He Shouldn't Have Done"?
(a) All the reasons he doesn’t like his sister.
(b) All the reasons he hates living at Out-With.
(c) All the reasons he enjoys being friends with Shmuel.
(d) All the reasons he doesn’t like Lieutenant Kotler.

5. What does Gretel spend her spare time doing in the weeks that pass in Chapter Seventeen: "Mother Gets Her Own Way"?
(a) Playing with her dolls.
(b) Playing with makeup.
(c) Reading romance novels.
(d) Reading newspapers.

6. When Bruno tells Shmuel about his family’s maid Maria in Chapter Thirteen: "The Bottle of Wine,” he says, “She’s very nice although Father says she’s” what?
(a) “Too strict.”
(b) “Lazy.”
(c) “Troublesome.”
(d) “Overpaid.”

7. When Bruno crosses to the other side of the fence in Chapter Nineteen: "What Happened the Next Day,” he is surprised that the grownups are not doing what?
(a) Pushing wheelbarrows back and forth.
(b) Marching like the soldiers.
(c) Smoking pipes and singing songs.
(d) Sitting in rocking chairs on their porches.

8. What does Bruno offer to do in order to help Shmuel in Chapter Eighteen: "Thinking Up the Final Adventure"?
(a) Ask his mother about Shmuel’s father.
(b) Ask his grandmother if Shmuel can live with him.
(c) Report Shmuel’s father missing to the police.
(d) Ask his father about Shmuel’s father.

9. What language does Gretel tell the Fury she can speak in Chapter Eleven: "The Fury"?
(a) French.
(b) English.
(c) Italian.
(d) German.

10. At what time does Bruno’s father say the Fury is coming to their house for dinner in the flashback in Chapter Eleven: "The Fury"?
(a) 9:00.
(b) 8:00.
(c) 7:00.
(d) 6:00.

11. Who were the Americans allied with during World War II?
(a) The Allied Powers.
(b) The Axis Powers.
(c) The Obligatory Powers.
(d) The NATO Powers.

12. What day of the week is it in the opening of Chapter Nineteen: "What Happened the Next Day"?
(a) Thursday.
(b) Wednesday.
(c) Friday.
(d) Saturday.

13. Whom does the narrator say Bruno had “become much friendlier with than he ever had been back in Berlin” in Chapter Seventeen: "Mother Gets Her Own Way"?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Maria.
(c) Bruno’s mother.
(d) Bruno’s father.

14. Where have Bruno and Shmuel been taken presumably in the end of Chapter Nineteen: "What Happened the Next Day"?
(a) A port authority.
(b) A gas chamber.
(c) An underground tunnel to freedom.
(d) A train depot.

15. What is Bruno’s reply when Shmuel says to him in Chapter Twelve: "Shmuel Thinks of an Answer to Bruno's Question,” “You’re on the wrong side of the fence though”?
(a) “I could crawl under.”
(b) “You could climb over.”
(c) “I could climb over.”
(d) “You could crawl under.”

Short Answer Questions

1. What is cooking for dinner when Bruno arrives home in Chapter Twelve: "Shmuel Thinks of an Answer to Bruno's Question"?

2. What does Shmuel promise to bring to Bruno when they meet for the last time in Chapter Eighteen: "Thinking Up the Final Adventure"?

3. For how long does Bruno say he and Shmuel have been meeting and talking to one another in Chapter Eighteen: "Thinking Up the Final Adventure"?

4. When he is talking to Gretel in his room in Chapter Fourteen: "Bruno Tells a Perfectly Reasonable Lie,” Bruno recalls the time in class he’d put his hand up and called the teacher what?

5. What did Gretel leave behind in Out-With when she and her mother returned to Berlin in Chapter Twenty: "The Last Chapter"?

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