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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. How does Herr Schneider earn money?
(a) Polishing lamps.
(b) Scribing for others.
(c) Collecting junk and selling it.
(d) As a janitor.

2. What does the narrator's family do when told to go inside their apartment?
(a) Go inside.
(b) Stand where they are.
(c) Try to attack the policeman.
(d) Spit on Herr Resch.

3. Who does the judge suggest the Nazis may turn against next?
(a) The Russians.
(b) Those of a different political party.
(c) The Poles.
(d) Vegetarians and Catholics.

4. What do the two boys do?
(a) Pretend they do not see Mr. Schneider.
(b) Query Mr. Schneider as to the problem.
(c) The narrator goes to his apartment and Friedrich accompanies his father to his apartment.
(d) Go off to the park so as not to disturb the adults.

5. Where does the narrator find Frau Schneider?
(a) On the floor and blue in the face.
(b) In the kitchen finishing dinner.
(c) On the veranda.
(d) She has been taken away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do they hear climbing the stairs to the upstairs apartment?

2. What image strikes the narrator?

3. What does Resch do when the narrator's family pounds on the locked shelter door?

4. About whom does the rabbi tell a story?

5. Where does the narrator take Friedrich?

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