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

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

3. With what does the the shop owner threaten Friedrich?
(a) Prison.
(b) Hitler.
(c) Juvenile detention.
(d) Reporting to Friedrich's parents.

4. What has left Mr. Schneider?
(a) Hope.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Fear.
(d) Courage.

5. Of what does Friedrich's father warn Friedrich?
(a) The need to leave Germany.
(b) Being good to his aunt.
(c) Getting interested in a girl.
(d) The need to be more circumspect.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father confess?

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

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

4. Who is Helga?

5. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

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