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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Herr Resch yell at Friedrich?
(a) To get off his rose bushes.
(b) To wait for the narrator.
(c) To build the snowman off the sidewalk.
(d) To get back inside as it is too cold.

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

4. Who watches the narrator while his mother is working?
(a) No one.
(b) Mrs. Schneider.
(c) His aunt.
(d) The kindergarten school.

5. What happens when the narrator's mother is ready?
(a) She dresses herself and the narrator warmly.
(b) She calls to Friedrich's mother to come up for tea.
(c) She takes the cake out of the oven.
(d) She calls her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich do with his candy?

2. What does the narrator's mother do while his father is looking for a job?

3. Why are the narrator's parents uncomfortable at the amusement park?

4. What does the narrator watch as sundown approaches?

5. In what language is the dinner ceremony conducted?

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