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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Friedrich meet with the girl as agreed upon?
(a) He decides he does not like her.
(b) He worries she will turn him in.
(c) He is afraid for her safety.
(d) He forgets where they are to meet.

2. What does Mr. Schneider ask of the narrator's father?
(a) To watch after his wife and son if something happens to Mr. Schneider.
(b) To try to borrow some money from Herr Resch.
(c) To continue as before.
(d) Nothing.

3. What does the narrator ask of Mr. Schneider?
(a) To borrow some money.
(b) That he leave Germany while he still can.
(c) To move down the street to the Jewish quarter.
(d) To stop talking to his family.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the officer tell the narrator?

2. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

3. How does Mr. Schneider answer the narrator's father?

4. What does Mr. Schneider offer the shop keeper?

5. Of what does Friedrich's father warn Friedrich?

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