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

2. 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) That he leave Germany while he still can.
(d) To borrow some money.

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

4. What does the officer tell the narrator?
(a) To pay the shop owner.
(b) To go home and be quiet.
(c) He is too young to understand how sneaky and dishonest the Jews are.
(d) To stick up for Friedrich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the the shop owner threaten Friedrich?

2. What does Mr. Schneider ask of the narrator's father?

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

4. Who is Helga?

5. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

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