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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Stars (1941)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friedrich put on at the synagogue?
(a) A woven belt.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A choir robe.
(d) His yarmulke (skullcap) and tallis (prayer shawl).

2. Why does the housekeeper work?
(a) She is a widow.
(b) She enjoys housework.
(c) She has eight children to support.
(d) She is bored at home and likes buying things.

3. What is Friedrich explaining to the narrator?
(a) Marxism.
(b) Kantian Philosophy.
(c) Geography.
(d) Math problems.

4. Why does Herr Schneider knock on the narrator's door late at night?
(a) To ask that Friedrich be adopted by them.
(b) To borrow a lamp.
(c) To upbraid the narrator.
(d) To ask for the family to stay there.

5. With what does Friedrich greet a man outside the Meyer department store?
(a) A "grown-up" handshake.
(b) Guten Tag.
(c) A solemn nod.
(d) Heil Hitler.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do parents traditionally do on the first day of school?

2. What has the narrator's father encouraged him to do?

3. What does the rabbi say he understands?

4. When questioned as to his motives, what does the landlord reply?

5. For what has the narrator been reprimanded?

(see the answer key)

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