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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "School Begins (1931)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do parents traditionally do on the first day of school?
(a) Dress their children in lederhosen.
(b) Go to the movies.
(c) Have a barbeque.
(d) Have a celebration.

2. What image strikes the narrator?
(a) The picture of Moses on the wall.
(b) The sun touching the horizon.
(c) The brilliant white tablecloth, loaves of bread, candles, and wine glasses.
(d) A passing look of a skull imposed over Friedrich.

3. What is Germany full of at the moment?
(a) Working towards peace.
(b) Spiritual awakenings.
(c) Unlimited opportunities.
(d) Unemployment and hardship.

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

5. What does the narrator's mother mention when she bathes both of the boys?
(a) That Friedrich is much darker than the narrator.
(b) That the water shows how badly they needed a bath.
(c) That the narrator is much more musclular than Friedrich.
(d) Friedrich's circumcision.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does the narrator's grandfather work?

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

3. How does the narrator's family prepare for the grandfather's visit?

4. What is in the narrator's first-day candy bag?

5. Where is the narrator's apartment?

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