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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why must the housekeeper's husband be careful?
(a) He is a former Communist.
(b) His job is precarious.
(c) His cousin is married to a Jew.
(d) He is a foreman at a Nazi weapons manufacturing plant.

2. What does the narrator ask of Mr. Schneider?
(a) To stop talking to his family.
(b) To move down the street to the Jewish quarter.
(c) To borrow some money.
(d) That he leave Germany while he still can.

3. How does Mr. Schneider answer the narrator's father?
(a) That there is nowhere else to go.
(b) That the Jewish quarter is full.
(c) That he has no money to spend.
(d) That he will stop so as not to endanger the narrator's family.

4. What does Schuster do?
(a) He assaults the narrator's father.
(b) He flees Germany for France.
(c) He pushes the boys unmercifully as their physical education teacher.
(d) He raises the rent.

5. Who weeps in joy at the verdict?
(a) The narrator's mother.
(b) Mr. Schneider.
(c) Friedrich.
(d) Herr Resch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich have for his outfit?

2. What has a boy lost?

3. What does the narrator watch?

4. What does Friedrich's father give him?

5. Who does housework for the Schneiders?

(see the answer key)

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