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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is special about Michael?
(a) He can speak five languages.
(b) He knows where Anya is.
(c) He is like a father to Leah.
(d) He excels at playing chess.

2. Who was the "stranger" in Jo's home?
(a) His teacher
(b) His father
(c) The Corporal
(d) Benjamin

3. How did Jo's sister react to the stranger?
(a) She wanted to stay right next to him.
(b) She was scared of him at first.
(c) She ran up to him and hugged him.
(d) She wouldn't stay in the same room as him.

4. What illness did Jo's father have?
(a) Tuberculosis
(b) Swine Flu
(c) Pneumonia
(d) AIDS

5. What kind of music was going to be played at the special Mass?
(a) Guitar
(b) Contemporary
(c) German
(d) French

6. How did Laurent feel about his own father?
(a) He really missed him.
(b) He loved him as a hero.
(c) He didn't like him and didn't want his father to come home.
(d) He thought his father was dead.

7. How did the stranger react when he was told about Jo's work in the household?
(a) His face darkened.
(b) He praised Jo.
(c) He was appreciative.
(d) He was exuberent.

8. What did the Corporal give Hubert so he could see better?
(a) Glasses
(b) A candle
(c) A special light
(d) Binoculars

9. How does the stranger react when they tell him about the curfew?
(a) He respects it.
(b) He thinks it's a good idea.
(c) He says he doesn't care and goes out anyway.
(d) He gets very depressed and refuses to talk about it.

10. What reputation did Auschwitz have?
(a) It was a labor camp.
(b) It treated prisoners well.
(c) It was a death camp.
(d) It was more like a hotel than a camp.

11. How did Jo feel about his secret at home?
(a) He loved keeping secrets.
(b) He was uncomfortable with it.
(c) He thought maybe he would just share it with one person.
(d) He felt important.

12. What was the mood in school the day after they went up the mountain?
(a) Everyone was ready to study.
(b) They wanted to go back outside.
(c) Jubilant
(d) Subdued

13. What did Jo do to escape from the pain the war left him with?
(a) He worked.
(b) He helped other children.
(c) He committed suicide.
(d) He wrote a book.

14. What did the Germans find in the house searches?
(a) Some hidden war criminals
(b) Nothing at all
(c) Several Jews
(d) Just some unusable rifles

15. Where did Jo go with the Corporal?
(a) He went to look for eagles.
(b) To church
(c) To the Corporal's home
(d) To the store

Short Answer Questions

1. What vehicle did Benjamin take when he left?

2. How did the villagers treat the soldiers after Benjamin left?

3. Where does Papa spend the summer?

4. Why did Grandpere choose to tell the secret?

5. What did the Corporal talk to the soldiers about?

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