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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what language is the dinner ceremony conducted?
(a) Yiddish.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) English.
(d) German.

3. Who rings the doorbell looking for the narrator?
(a) The narrator's teacher.
(b) The baker from down the street.
(c) Friedrich.
(d) Mrs. Schneidrer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator's family prepare for the grandfather's visit?

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

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

4. With what does Friedrich win over the narrator?

5. How does the narrator explain the bumping noise above?

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