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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Friedrich's father ask him?
(a) If he is sorry for the window.
(b) If he broke the window intentionally.
(c) If Friedrich will work off the debt for the window.
(d) If the narrator was the one who broke the window.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mr. Schneider answer the narrator's father?

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

3. Who is Helga?

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

5. What does the narrator's father confess?

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