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

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

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

4. How does the narrator explain the bumping noise above?
(a) By running upstairs to tell them to be quiet.
(b) By saying it is Friedrich.
(c) Saying they are rats in the walls.
(d) By pretending he does not hear the noise.

5. What does Friedrich do with his candy?
(a) Drops it out the window by accident.
(b) Gives it back to the baker as he does not like it.
(c) Hoards it in his room.
(d) Shares with everyone.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does the narrator's grandfather work?

2. What does the narrator's mother mention when she bathes both of the boys?

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

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

5. What does the narrator watch as sundown approaches?

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