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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Benches (1940)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of what does Friedrich's father warn Friedrich?
(a) Getting interested in a girl.
(b) The need to be more circumspect.
(c) Being good to his aunt.
(d) The need to leave Germany.

2. What has left Mr. Schneider?
(a) Hope.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Courage.

3. What does the officer tell the narrator?
(a) To go home and be quiet.
(b) He is too young to understand how sneaky and dishonest the Jews are.
(c) To stick up for Friedrich.
(d) To pay the shop owner.

4. What does Mr. Schneider offer the shop keeper?
(a) Help with organizing her shop.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Money to fix the window.
(d) A valuable piece of jewelry.

5. What does Mr. Schneider ask of the narrator's father?
(a) Nothing.
(b) To continue as before.
(c) To watch after his wife and son if something happens to Mr. Schneider.
(d) To try to borrow some money from Herr Resch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Helga?

2. How does the girl silence Friedrich on an outing?

3. What does Friedrich's father ask him?

4. What does the store owner call Friedrich?

5. Why doesn't Friedrich meet with the girl as agreed upon?

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