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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 kind of food does the narrator like?
(a) Pickled eggs.
(b) Chocolate candy with hazelnut filling.
(c) Sour candies.
(d) Pickled herring.

2. What name does Uri give the narrator?
(a) Ferdi.
(b) Mike.
(c) Misha.
(d) Olek.

3. What does Uri tell Misha he believes in?
(a) Mercy.
(b) God.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Bread.

4. What does Uri do after the shop blows up in front of the train?
(a) Uri pushes the narrator off the train.
(b) Uri stays where he is sitting.
(c) Uri takes over the driver's seat.
(d) Uri jumps off the train.

5. What does Misha bring to Janina's family the second time he goes to the ghetto?
(a) A loaf of bread.
(b) A sack of food.
(c) A carrot.
(d) A blanket.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tombstone fascinates Misha in the cemetery?

2. Who does Misha discover living in Janina's house?

3. Where does Uri take the narrator to sleep?

4. What does Uri give to the narrator?

5. What does Misha steal from Janina on her birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Misha discover in the brick wall that separates the ghetto from the rest of the city?

2. Why are there people in the street with newspapers covering their faces in the ghetto?

3. Who comes into the stable one morning, in Chapter 17, and force the boys out?

4. What happens when Misha runs headfirst into another boy after he stole cream puffs from a woman on the street?

5. Who does Misha see in the parade that leads the Jews to the ghetto?

6. Where does Misha take the roasted rats he steals?

7. How do Uri and Misha get food for themselves?

8. What does the narrator say his name is at the beginning of the novel, and why?

9. What fruit does Misha stumble upon one day, and who does he see watching him from the steps of the house?

10. What did Misha find in the stable the first night that Uri took him?

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