Based on the passage, what does the word muster mean?

• taste
• collect
• skip
• smell

Bruno is _________

• a soldier.
• the father in the story.
• the boy in the story.
• the main character’s best friend.

Why does the family have to move out of their home and away from Berlin?

• They have been evicted from their house.
• Gretel has been accepted at a very important school in another town.
• Father’s employer needs him to go somewhere else to perform a special job.
• The family is moving to a larger home in a different neighborhood.

What does Bruno notice that all of the people outside of his window are wearing?

• jeans and sweatshirts
• grey striped pajamas and grey striped caps
• flannel pajamas and bedroom shoes
• orange striped pajamas and tennis shoes

Who is Gretel?

• Bruno’s sister
• Bruno’s babysitter
• Father’s secretary
• Father’s mother

Who are Maria and Lars?

• Bruno’s best friends
• the family maid and butler
• Gretel’s best friends
• the family cousins

Throughout World War II, the citizens of Berlin abided by blackout regulations that sought to make it more difficult for enemy troops to conduct nighttime attacks. Which of the following lines from the story refers to this, providing a hint as to when this story takes place?

• “One day he was perfectly content, playing at home, having three best friends for life, sliding down banisters, trying to stand on his tiptoes to see right across Berlin, and now he was stuck here…
• He looked around the room without fully lifting his eyes up from the ground, trying to see whether there was anything of interest to be found.
• He walked slowly towards it, hoping that from here he might be able to see all the way back to Berlin and his house and the streets around it and the tables where the people sat and drank their frothy drinks and told each other hilarious stories.
• “Well, I don’t like the way we have to turn all the lights off at night now,” he admitted.

Based on the chapters we have read so far, we can infer exactly what type of soldiers Bruno observes. What type are they?

• Confederate soldiers
• Indian soldiers
• Nazi soldiers
• Union soldiers

Mother is happy about the move the family made.

• neutral – neither happy nor sad
• false
• true

What would most readers infer about Bruno’s family based on the passage?

• The family is rude and the children are snobbish.
• The family is quite wealthy.
• The family lives in a large city.
• The family owns a hotel.