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

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

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) That the water shows how badly they needed a bath.
(c) Friedrich's circumcision.
(d) That Friedrich is much darker than the narrator.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Germany full of at the moment?

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

4. Who lives above the narrator's family?

5. With what does Friedrich win over the narrator?

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