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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?
(a) By asking him to hush.
(b) With a kiss.
(c) With a scream.
(d) By covering his mouth with her hand.

2. What do the boys do next?
(a) Swim and sun.
(b) Chase some girls in fun.
(c) Read the newspaper at the library.
(d) Play soccer.

3. Over what does Friedrich weep?
(a) His mother's death.
(b) His inability to go to school.
(c) Being hungry.
(d) The notice in the letter.

4. Who is Herr Schuster?
(a) A commander of the Nazi storm troops.
(b) A policeman.
(c) The new landlord.
(d) Friedrich's uncle.

5. Where is Friedrich?
(a) Hiding in the attic.
(b) At Helga's home.
(c) He left for the United States.
(d) No one knows.

6. Who do they open the shelter door to find?
(a) A dog.
(b) Friedrich.
(c) Two elderly rabbis.
(d) No one.

7. Who is Helga?
(a) His paternal aunt.
(b) His mother's only sibling.
(c) A girl with whom Friedrich falls in love.
(d) The new cleaning lady that the narrator's mother hires.

8. How does Friedrich meet Helga?
(a) The narrator introduces them.
(b) Her bag of apples splits and he helps her gather them up.
(c) His father invited her to visit.
(d) She came to visit her sister's gravesite.

9. What does the narrator take up to the Schneiders?
(a) An armful of wood.
(b) Some potatoes.
(c) Another letter from the landlord.
(d) Some ice.

10. Who does the rabbi say will help him further?
(a) Other friends.
(b) His wife's family.
(c) No one.
(d) A German soldier whose life the rabbi saved.

11. What name does Friedrich call Resch?
(a) Bastard.
(b) Slimeball.
(c) Vulture.
(d) SOB.

12. What does the narrator's father advise Friedrich to do?
(a) Give himself up and hope for mercy.
(b) Leave Germany if at all possible.
(c) Hide in the basement which is empty.
(d) Stay in the apartment during the air raid.

13. What does Herr Schneider learn?
(a) That he is can no longer live in this town.
(b) That he may have a job in Dusseldorf.
(c) That he is being evicted again.
(d) That he is being sent to a camp.

14. What does Friedrich do to Resch?
(a) Spits in his face.
(b) Offers his forgiveness.
(c) Kills him.
(d) Slaps him.

15. What does the narrator tell his mother about his activities?
(a) That he was staying after school to help the teacher.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That he was listening to Hitler who was mesmerizing.
(d) That he was with schoolboys at the pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator picks what up and uses it?

2. About what does the narrator worry?

3. When Friedrich tries to run out of the theater, who stops him?

4. What does the narrator's mother try to do for Frau Schneider?

5. Who do they hear climbing the stairs to the upstairs apartment?

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