View a FREE sample

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 narrator's mother do while his father is looking for a job?
(a) Babysits six neighborhood children.
(b) Is a secretary for the Nazi party.
(c) Keeps the house clean.
(d) Washes other people's laundry.

2. What happens when the narrator's mother is ready?
(a) She takes the cake out of the oven.
(b) She calls her mother.
(c) She dresses herself and the narrator warmly.
(d) She calls to Friedrich's mother to come up for tea.

3. What does the narrator watch?
(a) The Nazis walking by the apartment.
(b) The death of a sparrow in the snow.
(c) The building of a snowman.
(d) The way the ice freezes on the sidewalk.

4. What do the narrator and his mother do before going outside?
(a) Cross themselves because they are Catholic.
(b) Remove their jewelry so it doesn't freeze their skin.
(c) Look out the window.
(d) Knock on Friedrich's door.

5. What does Herr Resch yell at Friedrich?
(a) To get off his rose bushes.
(b) To build the snowman off the sidewalk.
(c) To wait for the narrator.
(d) To get back inside as it is too cold.

Short Answer Questions

1. When questioned as to his motives, what does the landlord reply?

2. Who watches the narrator while his mother is working?

3. Who clears the snow?

4. What do parents traditionally do on the first day of school?

5. For what does the narrator's father pay?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 281 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample