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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Gretel ask Maria to do when she enters Bruno’s room in Chapter Six: "The Overpaid Maid"?
(a) To run her a bath.
(b) To bathe her dolls.
(c) To make her a sandwich.
(d) To make her some tea.

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

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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. Bruno’s Grandfather “had spent his entire life running a restaurant in the centre of town, and one of his employees was the father” of which of Bruno’s friends?

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

4. 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"?

5. Bruno angers his father in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions" by suggesting that his father do what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Bruno succeed in getting a tire in Chapter Seven: "How Mother Took Credit for Something that She Hadn't Done"? What does he do with it?

2. What is revealed on the plaque that Bruno reads in Chapter Nine: "Bruno Remembers that He Used to Enjoy Exploration"?

3. How does Bruno respond when his father asks him what he thinks of their new home in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions"?

4. Where does Bruno first meet the boy from the camp in Chapter Ten: "The Dot that Became a Speck that Became a Blob that Became a Figure that Became a Boy"?

5. What is Gretel’s response to the mystery of the fence and what is beyond it in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window"?

6. How old is Gretel in Chapter Four: "What they Saw through the Window"? How does Bruno feel about his sister?

7. How does Bruno become injured in Chapter Seven: "How Mother Took Credit for Something that She Hadn't Done"? Who helps him?

8. What is Bruno’s father’s position within the German military? What is the reason for his relocation?

9. How is Bruno’s relationship to his grandparents described in Chapter Eight: "Why Grandmother Stormed Out"?

10. What does Bruno show Gretel in his room in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"? How does Gretel respond?

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