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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is Helga?

(see the answer key)

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