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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?
(a) With a kiss.
(b) By covering his mouth with her hand.
(c) With a scream.
(d) By asking him to hush.

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

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

4. What does the store owner call Friedrich?
(a) A rotten Jungvolk.
(b) A bad catcher.
(c) Nothing.
(d) "Good-for-nothing Jewboy."

5. Who is Helga?
(a) His paternal aunt.
(b) His mother's only sibling.
(c) The new cleaning lady that the narrator's mother hires.
(d) A girl with whom Friedrich falls in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the officer tell the narrator?

2. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

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

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

5. Who has a serious talk?

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