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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 Friedrich start doing with a girl?
(a) Learning how to speak Yiddish.
(b) Walking throught the park on little-used paths.
(c) Taking her to the movies.
(d) Studying together since neither are allowed in school.

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

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

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

5. What happens when Friedrich misses the ball that the narrator throws?
(a) The ball hits a Nazi soldier.
(b) The ball rolls down a hill into the water.
(c) The ball breaks a store window.
(d) A dog catches the ball.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator ask of Mr. Schneider?

2. What does the officer tell the narrator?

3. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?

4. What has left Mr. Schneider?

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

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