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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who clears the snow?
(a) Friedrich.
(b) Frau Resch.
(c) Herr Resch.
(d) The narrator.

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

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

4. Who gets to go outside and play?
(a) The two children in the basement apartment.
(b) The narrator's sister.
(c) No one.
(d) Friedrich.

5. What does the narrator's mother mention when she bathes both of the boys?
(a) That Friedrich is much darker than the narrator.
(b) That the water shows how badly they needed a bath.
(c) That the narrator is much more musclular than Friedrich.
(d) Friedrich's circumcision.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is obvious by the conversation about the grandfather?

2. In what language is the dinner ceremony conducted?

3. What image strikes the narrator?

4. What is Germany full of at the moment?

5. When is the narrator born?

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