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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Conversation on the Stairs (1933)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the landlord want?
(a) To ask that the Schnieders move to the basement apartment.
(b) To reprimand Friedrich.
(c) The next three month's rent in advance.
(d) That the Schneiders vacate their apartment.

2. What do parents traditionally do on the first day of school?
(a) Have a celebration.
(b) Dress their children in lederhosen.
(c) Go to the movies.
(d) Have a barbeque.

3. For what does the narrator's father pay?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The exit tax.
(c) Licorice and a group photograph.
(d) The ride home.

4. In what language is the dinner ceremony conducted?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) German.
(c) English.
(d) Hebrew.

5. Who addresses the meeting?
(a) A dwarf dressed in a brown uniform.
(b) Hitler.
(c) The narrator's father.
(d) Herr Himler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herr Resch yell at Friedrich?

2. What does the narrator's mother do while his father is looking for a job?

3. What does the narrator's father do?

4. Why are the narrator's parents uncomfortable at the amusement park?

5. What is in the narrator's first-day candy bag?

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