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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Festival (1938)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must the housekeeper's husband be careful?
(a) His cousin is married to a Jew.
(b) He is a foreman at a Nazi weapons manufacturing plant.
(c) He is a former Communist.
(d) His job is precarious.

2. What is the first time Friedrich has experienced this as he watches his father?
(a) A fear in the pit of his stomach.
(b) A grown man cry.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Anger at Hitler.

3. What does Mrs. Schneider explain about the mezuzah?
(a) That it belongs to all humanity.
(b) That it is an ancient Greek symbol.
(c) That it helps Jews remember God and his commandments.
(d) That it is a Celtic symbol of fertitlity.

4. What does the narrator watch as sundown approaches?
(a) Mrs. Schneider prepare for the Sabbath meal.
(b) The arrival of the parents of children his mother watches.
(c) The orange glow in the distance, like fire.
(d) His father and Herr Schneider walking up the sidewalk together.

5. What does the narrator's father find after joining the Nazi party?
(a) He is depressed by the hatred.
(b) He is confused by the ideology.
(c) He has been deceived.
(d) A job.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't the housekeeper work for Mrs. Schneider?

2. Who does housework for the Schneiders?

3. What do the two boys do?

4. Of what does the speaker talk?

5. Where does the narrator take Friedrich?

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