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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While modeling one day, what causes Oskar to weep and tremble?
(a) A prop drum.
(b) The students laugh at him.
(c) A likeness to his mother.
(d) A likeness to Maria.

2. While in the boarding house, what does Oskar check daily?
(a) The lights.
(b) The news.
(c) The nurse's door.
(d) The cellar.

3. What does Oskar say he will do so Maria does not marry again?
(a) Stop drumming.
(b) Love their son.
(c) Buy a deli.
(d) Continue growing.

4. When Oskar arrives in Luneburg, why is he sent to the hospital?
(a) He is nauseous.
(b) He has convulsions.
(c) He cannot walk.
(d) Due to his growth.

5. What does Oskar steal from the nurse's room?
(a) Her diary.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Hair from her brush.
(d) Undergarments.

6. How does Oskar feel about the nurse at the boarding house?
(a) He is afraid of her.
(b) He does not like her.
(c) He is fascinated.
(d) He is in love with her.

7. Why does Oskar feel entitled to keep the finger he found on the beach?
(a) It is his reward.
(b) No one else wants it.
(c) He was promised it at birth.
(d) He found it himself.

8. What do Oskar and Klepp put in the hall of the boarding house?
(a) Their instruments.
(b) Lights.
(c) Fiber runner.
(d) Flowers.

9. How does Oskar feel about the black market business?
(a) He does not know about it.
(b) He willingly participates.
(c) He is opposed to it.
(d) He turns them in.

10. How does Bebra feel about Oskar's growth?
(a) Betrayed.
(b) Happy.
(c) Rejected.
(d) Disappointed.

11. How is Oskar paid for the gravestones?
(a) In money.
(b) In services.
(c) In silence.
(d) In trade.

12. What happens on the train that causes the passengers to lose their belongings?
(a) They are lost in a train wreck.
(b) They are robbed.
(c) They are confiscated.
(d) The passengers throw them off the side.

13. As the black market dries up, who supports the family?
(a) Maria.
(b) The government.
(c) Oskar.
(d) Kurt.

14. What is Bebra confined to in the doctors office when Oskar visits him?
(a) A cell.
(b) The table.
(c) A box.
(d) A motorized wheelchair.

15. How old is Oskar at the beginning of Chapter 46?
(a) 28.
(b) 29.
(c) 30.
(d) 27.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Oskar ask out on a date?

2. What does Matzerath do with the party pin when the Russian soldiers invade their hideout?

3. What does the patent leather belt represent?

4. What does the nurse's patent leather belt remind him of?

5. While in the nurse's room, what does Oskar use as a drum?

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