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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Hearing (1933)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Friedrich's father ask him?
(a) If the narrator was the one who broke the window.
(b) If Friedrich will work off the debt for the window.
(c) If he is sorry for the window.
(d) If he broke the window intentionally.

2. Whose office sign has a the word "Jew" scrawled across it?
(a) The stationery shop.
(b) Friedrich's father's shop.
(c) The bakery shop.
(d) Dr. Jakob Askenase.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Friedrich win over the narrator?

2. Of what does the speaker talk?

3. Who does the judge suggest the Nazis may turn against next?

4. What happens when Friedrich misses the ball that the narrator throws?

5. When is the narrator born?

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