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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 must the housekeeper's husband be careful?
(a) His job is precarious.
(b) His cousin is married to a Jew.
(c) He is a former Communist.
(d) He is a foreman at a Nazi weapons manufacturing plant.

2. What does Mr. Schneider tell the sales girl the boys can have?
(a) A tour of the administrative floors.
(b) A look from the roof of the building.
(c) A piece of candy.
(d) A toy to be charged to Mr. Schneider.

3. When is the narrator born?
(a) One week before Friedrich.
(b) A year after Friedrich.
(c) One week before Friedrich.
(d) On the same day as Friedrich.

4. Who does the landlord ask to witness his conversation with Mr. Schneider?
(a) The baker.
(b) The narrator's mother.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) No one.

5. Who has a serious talk?
(a) The narrator's father and the narrator.
(b) The narrator's father and Friedrich.
(c) The narrator's father and Mr. Schneider.
(d) Mr. Schneider and the narrator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father confess?

2. Who will no longer be allowed to attend the school?

3. Who watches the narrator while his mother is working?

4. For whom does the narrator's grandfather work?

5. What does Friedrich tie around his neck?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the indications that the narrator's family is not as well to do as Friedich's family?

2. Why do you think the narrator is so distracted?

3. What may be foreshadowing a future of terror and death for Jews?

4. Describe the conversation between Herr Schneider and the narrator's father about the Nazi party. Do you think the narrator's father is justified in joining the party?

5. Describe Friedrich's preparations for his first visit to a meeting of the Jungvolk.

6. Summarize what the teacher says about Jewish history.

7. What does this situation with Frau Penk demonstrate?

8. What sort of celebration is there on the first day of school?

9. What does the narrator's father do that is equally as courageous as what his son does in the last chapter?

10. Who is Dr. Jakob Askenase and what is significant about the boys' visit there in this chapter?

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