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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator's family not sleep the night the rabbi and Herr Schneider are taken?
(a) Worrying they may be next.
(b) Because of worrying about Friedrich.
(c) Thinking about how far Germany has fallen morally.
(d) Wondering if Herr Resch will turn on them.

2. What does Resch pick up?
(a) A spade that has embedded in his rose bush.
(b) Some debris on his rose bush.
(c) His wounded garden dwarf, Polycarp.
(d) An unexploded shell.

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

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

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

6. What does an usherette say to him as he is escorted out?
(a) Do you want to be arrested?
(b) Who is your father?
(c) Do you want to go to a concentration camp?
(d) Why do you want to see such a movie?

7. What does Friedrich do?
(a) Helps his dad collect junk.
(b) Still goes to school.
(c) Works for the narrator's father.
(d) Fixes lamps.

8. What does the narrator bring Herr Schneider?
(a) A small heater.
(b) A cooked chicken.
(c) A dozen candles.
(d) A letter mistakenly delivered to the narrator's house.

9. What does the narrator's mother try to do for Frau Schneider?
(a) Give her CPR.
(b) Pray with her.
(c) Bring her to their apartment.
(d) Tell her she will care for Friedrich.

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

11. What does the attendant do?
(a) Calls the police.
(b) Slaps Friedrich for swimming in the pool.
(c) Tears up Friedrich's id.
(d) Refuses to allow Friedrich to change in the locker room.

12. Why are Friedrich and his father having uncharacteristic arguments?
(a) Friedrich wants them to leave Germany.
(b) They are just going through the normal father-son dynamics.
(c) They are harboring a wanted rabbi in their apartment.
(d) The father wants to leave Germany and Friedrich does not.

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

14. What do they announce when the lights come on?
(a) That there is an air raid.
(b) That those who are under 12 must have a parent with them.
(c) That Germany has declared war.
(d) That all ID's must be checked.

15. What is the town like after the air raid?
(a) Only Resch's apartment building is left.
(b) About ten buildings are completely demolished.
(c) In ruins.
(d) In pretty good shape.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what does Friedrich's father warn Friedrich?

2. Why does Herr Schneider bring Dr. Levy to the narrator's apartment?

3. What does the sergeant say about the Allies?

4. What does the narrator's family do when told to go inside their apartment?

5. What does Solomon do?

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