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

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

3. With what does the the shop owner threaten Friedrich?
(a) Hitler.
(b) Juvenile detention.
(c) Reporting to Friedrich's parents.
(d) Prison.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich's father ask him?

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

3. What does the narrator's father confess?

4. What does Friedrich start doing with a girl?

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

(see the answer key)

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