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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 Misha steal from Janina on her birthday?
(a) Her shoes.
(b) Her coat.
(c) Her presents.
(d) Her birthday cake.

2. What happens to the merry-go-round the day after Misha rides it?
(a) Someone tears it down.
(b) Someone vandalizes it.
(c) Someone dies on it.
(d) Someone steals a horse.

3. What does the train crash into?
(a) A restaurant.
(b) A hospital.
(c) A bakery.
(d) A school.

4. How does the narrator get his food?
(a) He gets it from Uri.
(b) He buys it from shops.
(c) He digs in the trash.
(d) He steals from people on the street.

5. What does Uri give to the narrator?
(a) A backstory.
(b) A father.
(c) A comb.
(d) A new pair of shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the Jews walking in the parade headed?

2. What kind of food does Misha steal from one family's dinner table?

3. Who does Misha share his first bit of stolen food in the ghetto with?

4. What does Misha notice about the wall around the ghetto?

5. What happens to the boy running by the train?

Short Essay Questions

1. What foods do Uri and Misha love?

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

3. Where did Uri take Misha to sleep at night, and what was there?

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

5. What are the men in black coats doing on the first day of the parade?

6. What did the boys think of Misha when he first met them?

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

8. What does Misha think he might be when the boys inspect him in the stable?

9. What is Janina's family's new home in the ghetto like?

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

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