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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. Where do the narrator and Friedrich go?
(a) To the movies.
(b) To the swimiming pool.
(c) To a skating rink.
(d) To watch the tanks go by on their way to Poland.

2. How is the narrator's home?
(a) Completely unharmed.
(b) Gone.
(c) Still standing but the windows are shattered.
(d) It is not revealed.

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

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

5. For what does Friedrich ask?
(a) The photograph of the two families at the park many years ago.
(b) For a bundle of food so he can flee Germany.
(c) For them to help him kill himself.
(d) To be able to sleep there that night.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what has the narrator been reprimanded?

2. How does the narrator's family show its continued concern for Friedrich?

3. Why do they decide not to let Friedrich stay?

4. What does Friedrich put on at the synagogue?

5. Who opens the Schneider's door?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the Jewish death ritual.

2. Who visits the Schneiders and what happens?

3. How does the ending of the chapter then bring the readers right back into the horror of "real" life?

4. What is foreshadowed in the first part of this chapter?

5. What does Friedrich speak about and what does he ask of the narrator's family? What do you think is the reason for his request?

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

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

8. What is ironic about the prayer that Scholoime is reciting at his death?

9. What does this second eviction notice suggest?

10. What happens in the last paragraphs of this chapter that suggests that the average non-Jewish German does know about the concentration camps and what is significant about the author including this idea?

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