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

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

3. What does the store owner call Friedrich?
(a) A bad catcher.
(b) A rotten Jungvolk.
(c) "Good-for-nothing Jewboy."
(d) Nothing.

4. Why doesn't Friedrich meet with the girl as agreed upon?
(a) He worries she will turn him in.
(b) He forgets where they are to meet.
(c) He is afraid for her safety.
(d) He decides he does not like her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Friedrich meet Helga?

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

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

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

5. What does the officer tell the narrator?

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