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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Benches (1940)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?
(a) By asking him to hush.
(b) With a scream.
(c) By covering his mouth with her hand.
(d) With a kiss.

2. What does the narrator's father confess?
(a) That his son is going to military school.
(b) That he is leaving Germany.
(c) That he has turned in the Schneiders as Jews.
(d) That he has joined the Nazi party.

3. How does Friedrich meet Helga?
(a) Her bag of apples splits and he helps her gather them up.
(b) The narrator introduces them.
(c) She came to visit her sister's gravesite.
(d) His father invited her to visit.

4. What does Mr. Schneider offer the shop keeper?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Money to fix the window.
(c) Help with organizing her shop.
(d) A valuable piece of jewelry.

5. What does Friedrich's father ask him?
(a) If the narrator was the one who broke the window.
(b) If Friedrich will work off the debt for the window.
(c) If he is sorry for the window.
(d) If he broke the window intentionally.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a serious talk?

2. What does the officer tell the narrator?

3. What happens when Friedrich misses the ball that the narrator throws?

4. Who is Helga?

5. What does the narrator ask of Mr. Schneider?

(see the answer key)

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