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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has a serious talk?

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

3. What does the store owner call Friedrich?

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

5. Of what does Friedrich's father warn Friedrich?

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