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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the doctor advise Frau Schneider to do?
(a) Breathe gently while the sedative works.
(b) Look forward to many more years of life.
(c) Nothing; she is beyond advice.
(d) Confess her sins to her husband.

2. What is the problem with Mr. Schneider?
(a) He did not get a big promotion because the company is doing poorly.
(b) He finds out he has an incurable disease.
(c) He lost his job because he is Jewish.
(d) He hurt a man badly on the job today.

3. What happens when Mrs. Schneider goes to talk with the housekeeper?
(a) The housekeeper have moved.
(b) The housekeeper says she can no longer work for Mrs. Schneider.
(c) The housekeeper has been arrested.
(d) The housekeeper wants a raise.

4. 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.

5. What does the landlord want?
(a) That the Schneiders vacate their apartment.
(b) The next three month's rent in advance.
(c) To reprimand Friedrich.
(d) To ask that the Schnieders move to the basement apartment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Friedrich put on at the synagogue?

2. Who is Herr Schuster?

3. What is the first time Friedrich has experienced this as he watches his father?

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

5. Where is the narrator's apartment?

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