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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. Why does Matzerath think Oskar's mother eats only fish?
(a) It is inexpensive.
(b) There is nothing else to eat.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is ill.

2. Oskar describes his room in the mental hospital. How does he describe his bed?
(a) Cold and hard.
(b) His demise.
(c) Soft as a cloud.
(d) As a goal.

3. What type of children does Oskar say are "destructive out of mischief"?
(a) Those who are bored.
(b) Those in school.
(c) Those with no discipline.
(d) Those who play.

4. What does Oskar associate his guilt with?
(a) His betrayal.
(b) His childhood.
(c) The drum from the Post Office.
(d) His lifetime of isolation.

5. When Osker is traveling with the midget troupe, what makes him homesick?
(a) The expensive glassware of Louis XVI.
(b) The pyramids.
(c) The Eiffel tower.
(d) The Nile.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakes Oskar up after he falls asleep in the mail room of the post office?

2. How does Oskar say he dealt with not being about to find him?

3. In Chapter 3, Oskar is in the hospital and his friends come to visit. What gift does Klepp bring him?

4. What type of people does Greff prefer?

5. Why does Oskar say his uncle Gregor drank?

Short Essay Questions

1. What two things are the result of Oskar's fall down the cellar steps?

2. How does Oskar feel about quitting school after the first day and what does he do about it?

3. What was Oskar's mother's diet like after Easter?

4. What does Rasputin teach Oskar?

5. What does Oskar do when he does not receive drums for Christmas?

6. As the story begins, the reader immediately learns that the narrator is in a mental hospital. How does Oskar wish to change his room and are his changes something that would be expected?

7. Oskar tells Bruno and his friends the story of his grandfather's possible death. After the story, each character responds with what he thinks actually happened. Whose version of the story's end does Oskar like the best and why.?

8. While at the beach, Oskar and his family meet a fisherman who is using a horse head to fish. What happens to Oskar's mother when she sees the horse head?

9. What is Maria's reaction when Oskar puts the homemade fizz powder in his hand and spits in it?

10. What does each member of the midget troupe perform for the soldiers?

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