View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Annemarie, Ellen and Kirsti reside at the beginning of this novel?

2. What was the main course of the first dinner at Uncle Henrik's house?

3. In Chapter 4, what does Annemarie's father tell Ellen and Annemarie to do, should anyone ask?

4. Why does Annemarie tell Ellen to take a specific item she is wearing off in Chapter 5?

5. Which character sleeps through the entire invasion of the soldiers into the home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Rosen tell the girls in Chapter 1 that it is safer to avoid the German soldiers?

2. What will happen to all of the people on the Nazi's list?

3. Why does Annemarie often open Lise's trunk?

4. Why is Annemarie jealous of Ellen on the Thursday before her parents leave?

5. How do Annemarie and Ellen know that their parents are not telling the truth about Mrs. Hirsch when they say she has gone on a vacation to the seashore?

6. How does Annemarie get off Ellen's necklace in Chapter 5?

7. Why is Annemarie confused by Henrik announcing that tomorrow would be a good day for fishing?

8. Why does Papa agree it would be better if Mama takes the girls alone to Uncle Henrik's house?

9. What had happened to Norway when they fought the Nazis?

10. What does Mama want to know once the girls return into Uncle Henrik's house after their fun in the ocean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay contrasting the fairy tale world and the actual events surrounding Ellen and Annemarie. Be sure to use specific examples from the story to support your contrasts.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay describing how Annemarie must feel learning that her sister was a member of the Resistance.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay discussing how reality was blended into fiction to create this novel. Use information from the text to support your essay.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 616 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample