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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "In the Shelter (1942).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator watch?
(a) The way the ice freezes on the sidewalk.
(b) The building of a snowman.
(c) The death of a sparrow in the snow.
(d) The Nazis walking by the apartment.

2. With what does Schuster order the boys to load their packs?
(a) Bricks.
(b) Food.
(c) Books.
(d) Survival gear.

3. How does Friedrich meet Helga?
(a) His father invited her to visit.
(b) Her bag of apples splits and he helps her gather them up.
(c) The narrator introduces them.
(d) She came to visit her sister's gravesite.

4. Why does Herr Schneider knock on the narrator's door late at night?
(a) To upbraid the narrator.
(b) To ask for the family to stay there.
(c) To borrow a lamp.
(d) To ask that Friedrich be adopted by them.

5. What does Solomon do?
(a) Kills himself.
(b) Starves to death.
(c) Kills the soldiers.
(d) Goes to another land.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's father find after joining the Nazi party?

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

3. Who demands the case be dismissed?

4. Where is the narrator's apartment?

5. What does the officer tell the narrator?

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