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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) Wondering if Herr Resch will turn on them.
(c) Because of worrying about Friedrich.
(d) Thinking about how far Germany has fallen morally.

2. About what do the boys chant?
(a) About Hitler's love for his people.
(b) About the Jews perishing in the Red Sea, bringing peace to the world.
(c) About the Olympics.
(d) Nothing; they are absolutely silent while they circle Friedrich.

3. With whom does Friedrich nearly collide?
(a) With Mr. Rosenthal.
(b) With the narrator's father.
(c) With the local leader of the Jungvolk.
(d) With someone coming the other way on a fine silvery bicycle.

4. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?
(a) Learning how to speak Yiddish.
(b) Walking throught the park on little-used paths.
(c) Taking her to the movies.
(d) Studying together since neither are allowed in school.

5. About what does the narrator worry?
(a) That the rabbi will be caught and killed.
(b) That Friedrich will break under tortue and finger the narrator as an accomplice.
(c) The strain of keeping this terrible secret.
(d) That Friedrich will be killed.

6. What indications are there that the air raid siren is not a false alarm?
(a) The apartment building is shaking.
(b) A piece of tree limb flies into the window.
(c) A policeman with a bullhorn is yelling to the residents.
(d) Anti-aircraft guns thunder; searchlights sway across the sky, planes hum, and shrapnel falls.

7. What does Schloime ask of God?
(a) Why God can not crush his enemies.
(b) Why the Jews cannot find peace.
(c) Why God loves others but not the Jews.
(d) Why God has forsaken him.

8. Who are Schloime and Gitte?
(a) Noah's parents.
(b) Solomon's parents.
(c) David's parents.
(d) Elijah's parents.

9. Why does the narrator run upstairs to Friedrich's apartment?
(a) He hears Frau Schneider cry out.
(b) He wants to show Friedrich what he got when with the group of people.
(c) He wants Friedrich to join him at the pool.
(d) He is getting in shape for soccer season.

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

11. The narrator picks what up and uses it?
(a) A pistol.
(b) A canister of tear gas.
(c) A bullhorn.
(d) A hammer.

12. Where does the narrator's family sit in the shelter?
(a) Near the fresh air pump.
(b) In the room away from the door.
(c) As far away from Resch as possible.
(d) Next to another family of the same age.

13. For what is Friedrich singled out for the first time in his life?
(a) To carry the ark.
(b) To sing the psalm of the day.
(c) To usher.
(d) To read publicly from the Torah.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Schuster demand of the boys when he sees Friedrich?

2. What is the group of people doing that the narrator joins?

3. For what does Friedrich ask?

4. How does Friedrich meet Helga?

5. What does Herr Schneider learn?

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