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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Death (1938)".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schuster do?
(a) He raises the rent.
(b) He flees Germany for France.
(c) He pushes the boys unmercifully as their physical education teacher.
(d) He assaults the narrator's father.

2. Who gives Friedrich an engraved fountain pen?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The narrator's father.
(c) Frau Peng.
(d) Neudorf.

3. 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.

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

5. Who will no longer be allowed to attend the school?
(a) Both Friedrich and the narrator because they are now in a different district.
(b) No one is barred from attending school.
(c) The narrator because he's poor.
(d) Friedrich, because he is a Jew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mr. Schneider tell the sales girl the boys can have?

2. Who rings the doorbell looking for the narrator?

3. What does the narrator's mother try to do for Frau Schneider?

4. Who gets to go outside and play?

5. What does the narrator watch as sundown approaches?

(see the answer key)

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