Copy of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Test – Chapters 7-10

His black boots always sparkled with polish and his yellow-blond hair was parted at the side and held perfectly in place with something that made comb marks stand out in it, like a field that had just been tilled.

What literary devices are used in the passage?

• imagery and metaphor
• imagery and simile
• simile and idiom
• simile and personification

Which words form an example of figurative language?

• …his yellow-blond hair was parted at the side
• His black boots always sparkled…
• …that made comb marks stand out in it like a field that had just been tilled.
• …held perfectly in place with something

His black boots always sparkled with polish and his yellow-blond hair was parted at the side and held perfectly in place with something that made comb marks stand out in it, like a field that had just been tilled.

What can we infer about the lieutenant from this passage?

• He was an intelligent student who made good grades.
• His favorite color is black.
• His mom does his laundry.
• He is very concerned with his looks

His black boots always sparkled with polish and his yellow-blond hair was parted at the side and held perfectly in place with something that made comb marks stand out in it, like a field that had just been tilled.

What type of figurative language is found in this sentence?

• hyperbole
• personification
• simile
• metaphor

Bruno finds out that Pavel was once _____________.

• a doctor
• a soldier
• an airplane pilot
• a teacher

Which character wrote plays for Bruno to perform?

• Herr Listz
• Mother
• Franz Roller
• Grandmother

Which of the following characters wore an armband with a star on it?

• Bruno
• Gretel
• Shmuel
• none of these

The tutor Father hired is __________.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Herr Liszt
• Shmuel
• Franz Roller

Which of the following words best describe Bruno’s grandmother?

• timid and beautiful
• confident and out-spoken
• talented and hostile
• boastful and shallow

Which of the following passages supports your answer to the words you chose to best describe Bruno’s grandmother?

• She had long red hair, surprisingly similar to her daughter-in-law’s, and green eyes, and she claimed that was because somewhere in her family there was Irish blood.
• Grandmother never seemed old in comparison to the other boys’ grandmothers.
• Grandmother liked to think that Bruno or Gretel would follow her onto the stage, and every Christmas and at every birthday party she would devise a small play for the three of them to perform…
• “I wonder if all the performances I made you give as a boy led you to this. Dressing up like a puppet on a string.”