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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "School Begins (1931)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator watch?
(a) The Nazis walking by the apartment.
(b) The death of a sparrow in the snow.
(c) The building of a snowman.
(d) The way the ice freezes on the sidewalk.

2. For what does the narrator's father pay?
(a) Nothing.
(b) The exit tax.
(c) The ride home.
(d) Licorice and a group photograph.

3. What image strikes the narrator?
(a) A passing look of a skull imposed over Friedrich.
(b) The sun touching the horizon.
(c) The brilliant white tablecloth, loaves of bread, candles, and wine glasses.
(d) The picture of Moses on the wall.

4. What does the narrator do with his candy?
(a) Eats it.
(b) Throws in down the trash chute because he's angry.
(c) Starts to share, but his mother motions him to wait.
(d) Shares with everyone.

5. Why are the narrator's parents uncomfortable at the amusement park?
(a) Because the Schneiders have no money.
(b) Because the others see them with a Jewish family.
(c) Because the Schneiders have to buy all the tickets and food.
(d) Because their are German soldiers all over.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who clears the snow?

2. Who lives above the narrator's family?

3. What is in the narrator's first-day candy bag?

4. Who gets to go outside and play?

5. What does the narrator watch as sundown approaches?

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