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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator's father confess?
(a) That his son is going to military school.
(b) That he has joined the Nazi party.
(c) That he is leaving Germany.
(d) That he has turned in the Schneiders as Jews.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the store owner call Friedrich?

2. What has left Mr. Schneider?

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

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

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

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