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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. What happens as Friedrich is eating?
(a) The police pound on the door.
(b) The sirens begin to wail.
(c) Friedrich slumps over dead asleep.
(d) Friedrich begins sobbing.

2. What does the narrator's family do when told to go inside their apartment?
(a) Try to attack the policeman.
(b) Spit on Herr Resch.
(c) Go inside.
(d) Stand where they are.

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

4. What does the narrator find himself doing without thinking?
(a) Trying to stop the mob from hurting the Jews.
(b) Yelling for a job with everyone else.
(c) Chanting at the door of the Jewish apprentice home.
(d) Feeling pride in the word of Hitler.

5. What is the rabbi sewing on his clothes?
(a) The swastika.
(b) Yellow stars of David.
(c) Patches.
(d) Hidden pockets.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the narrator's home?

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

3. With what does Schuster order the boys to load their packs?

4. What indications are there that the air raid siren is not a false alarm?

5. What does Schuster do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator's ethical dilemma concerning this situation?

2. What happens and what is the significance of it when Friedrich and the narrator are leaving the pool?

3. Despite all that Friedrich has been through, what demonstrates his goodness?

4. What do you think Resch means when he says, "his luck that he died this way"?

5. Describe the Jewish death ritual.

6. What is ironic about the way Resch treats his garden polycarp in contrast to how he treats Friedrich?

7. How are these chants a perversion of Jewish historical events?

8. What do you think Schneider was doing by saying, "You were right, Herr..."?

9. What happens when the narrator returns home and how does his response present a different side of the narrator?

10. What does the narrator do with the mob and why do you think he is capable of those acts when his best friend is Jewish?

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