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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. 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) “Forty-two.”
(c) “Sixty-one.”
(d) “Thirty-eight.”

2. The boy on the other side of the fence is described as having eyes the color of what in Chapter Ten: "The Dot that Became a Speck that Became a Blob that Became a Figure that Became a Boy"?
(a) Caramel sweets.
(b) The ocean.
(c) Cotton candy.
(d) Brushed wheat.

3. 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 four.”
(b) “Number six.”
(c) “Number seven.”
(d) “Number five.”

4. What subjects are Bruno said to prefer studying in Chapter Nine: "Bruno Remembers that He Used to Enjoy Exploration"?
(a) History and geography.
(b) Music and dance.
(c) Science and mathematics.
(d) Reading and art.

5. What is Bruno’s response when his father asks him in his office in Chapter Five: "Out of Bounds at All Times and No Exceptions,” “What do you think? … Of your new home. Do you like it?”
(a) “No. I think we should go home.”
(b) “Yes, Father. I love it here.”
(c) “I’m sure I’ll come to love it, Father.”
(d) “Are you sure we’ve come to the right place?”

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. What is the bicycle called that is ridden by Bruno’s tutor when he arrives in Chapter Nine: "Bruno Remembers that He Used to Enjoy Exploration"?

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

4. How many floors, including the basement, comprise Bruno’s family’s new home in Out-With?

5. Bruno says of his father and all fathers in Chapter Two: "The New House" that “fathers are supposed to be” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bruno come to discover his family is moving in Chapter One: "Bruno Makes a Discovery"? How does Bruno respond?

2. 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"?

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

4. What leads Bruno to go exploring in Chapter Nine: "Bruno Remembers that He Used to Enjoy Exploration"? Where does he first go?

5. How does Gretel go about attempting to cheer up her brother in Chapter Three: "The Hopeless Case"?

6. How does Bruno compare his new home to his old one in Chapter Two: "The New House"?

7. 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"?

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

9. Who does “the Fury” refer to in the novel? What information does the reader learn about the Fury in Chapter Two: "The New House"?

10. 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?

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