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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 happens when the narrator's mother is ready?
(a) She calls her mother.
(b) She takes the cake out of the oven.
(c) She calls to Friedrich's mother to come up for tea.
(d) She dresses herself and the narrator warmly.

2. What does the store owner call Friedrich?
(a) Nothing.
(b) "Good-for-nothing Jewboy."
(c) A rotten Jungvolk.
(d) A bad catcher.

3. What does the narrator take up to the Schneiders?
(a) Some potatoes.
(b) Another letter from the landlord.
(c) An armful of wood.
(d) Some ice.

4. Why does the housekeeper work?
(a) She is bored at home and likes buying things.
(b) She enjoys housework.
(c) She has eight children to support.
(d) She is a widow.

5. Where is Friedrich?
(a) At Helga's home.
(b) He left for the United States.
(c) Hiding in the attic.
(d) No one knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can't the housekeeper work for Mrs. Schneider?

2. What happens when Mrs. Schneider goes to talk with the housekeeper?

3. What does the doctor begin chanting as Frau Schneider is dying?

4. Who is Herr Schuster?

5. What does the narrator warn Friedrich not to reveal?

(see the answer key)

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