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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Mr. Schneider ask of the narrator's father?
(a) Nothing.
(b) To watch after his wife and son if something happens to Mr. Schneider.
(c) To try to borrow some money from Herr Resch.
(d) To continue as before.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has left Mr. Schneider?

3. What does Mr. Schneider offer the shop keeper?

4. Who is Helga?

5. How does Friedrich meet Helga?

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