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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?
(a) Taking her to the movies.
(b) Walking throught the park on little-used paths.
(c) Studying together since neither are allowed in school.
(d) Learning how to speak Yiddish.

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

3. Who has a serious talk?
(a) The narrator's father and Friedrich.
(b) The narrator's father and the narrator.
(c) The narrator's father and Mr. Schneider.
(d) Mr. Schneider and the narrator.

4. What happens when Friedrich misses the ball that the narrator throws?
(a) The ball hits a Nazi soldier.
(b) A dog catches the ball.
(c) The ball breaks a store window.
(d) The ball rolls down a hill into the water.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Friedrich meet with the girl as agreed upon?

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

3. Who is Helga?

4. What does the officer tell the narrator?

5. What does the narrator's father confess?

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