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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 is afraid for her safety.
(b) He decides he does not like her.
(c) He worries she will turn him in.
(d) He forgets where they are to meet.

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

3. How does Mr. Schneider answer the narrator's father?
(a) That he will stop so as not to endanger the narrator's family.
(b) That there is nowhere else to go.
(c) That he has no money to spend.
(d) That the Jewish quarter is full.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has left Mr. Schneider?

2. What happens when Friedrich misses the ball that the narrator throws?

3. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

4. What does the narrator's father confess?

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

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