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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Conversation on the Stairs (1933)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who watches the narrator while his mother is working?
(a) His aunt.
(b) No one.
(c) The kindergarten school.
(d) Mrs. Schneider.

2. What is in the narrator's first-day candy bag?
(a) A jawbreaker.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Some confections.
(d) Three lollipops.

3. Who clears the snow?
(a) Herr Resch.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Friedrich.
(d) Frau Resch.

4. What does the narrator watch as sundown approaches?
(a) Mrs. Schneider prepare for the Sabbath meal.
(b) His father and Herr Schneider walking up the sidewalk together.
(c) The arrival of the parents of children his mother watches.
(d) The orange glow in the distance, like fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Herr Resch yell at Friedrich?

2. Why are the narrator's parents uncomfortable at the amusement park?

3. Who addresses the meeting?

4. When questioned as to his motives, what does the landlord reply?

5. What does Friedrich tie around his neck?

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