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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Death (1938)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator picks what up and uses it?
(a) A hammer.
(b) A canister of tear gas.
(c) A pistol.
(d) A bullhorn.

2. What does the attendant do?
(a) Tears up Friedrich's id.
(b) Calls the police.
(c) Slaps Friedrich for swimming in the pool.
(d) Refuses to allow Friedrich to change in the locker room.

3. Who muscles past the protester?
(a) An old woman.
(b) No one; they are all too scared.
(c) Hans and Friedrich.
(d) Two rabbis.

4. Why can't the housekeeper work for Mrs. Schneider?
(a) Her husband forbids it.
(b) Her back is out of whack.
(c) Because German law prohibits Germans under the age of 35 from working for Jews.
(d) Her kids need her at home.

5. When questioned as to his motives, what does the landlord reply?
(a) Because the law has changed.
(b) Because the Schneiders are Jewish.
(c) That it is none of Herr Schneider's business.
(d) Because the Schneiders are behind in the rent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich's father ask him?

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

3. Why does Herr Schneider knock on the narrator's door late at night?

4. What does Friedrich give at the Sabbath feast?

5. What happens when the narrator's mother is ready?

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