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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 does Schuster do?
(a) He flees Germany for France.
(b) He pushes the boys unmercifully as their physical education teacher.
(c) He raises the rent.
(d) He assaults the narrator's father.

2. What does Friedrich find when he comes back to his apartment?
(a) Rats already taking over.
(b) The narrator crying in the middle of the living room.
(c) Herr Resch ransacking the place.
(d) Blood all over the floor.

3. Who does the rabbi say will help him further?
(a) No one.
(b) A German soldier whose life the rabbi saved.
(c) His wife's family.
(d) Other friends.

4. What does the rabbi say he understands?
(a) The way of the peaceful warrior.
(b) The reasons the Germans hate the Jews.
(c) The danger to the narrator's family.
(d) The fact that his life may end soon.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator take up to the Schneiders?

2. What does the doctor advise Frau Schneider to do?

3. Who do they open the shelter door to find?

4. The narrator picks what up and uses it?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Friedrich's appearance suggest?

2. What does this second eviction notice suggest?

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

4. What happens when Friedrich tries to get into the shelter?

5. What happens when a Storm Trooper takes over the physical education of the German school boys during his spare time?

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

7. What demonstrates the fact that the narrator's family has not completely turned its backs on the Schneiders as so many other non-Jewish Germans have?

8. How does Friedrich's family celebrate his Bar Mitzvah?

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

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

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