The Upstairs Room Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Johanna Reiss
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 97 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Upstairs Room Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Johanna Reiss
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 97 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages of math did Sini make Annie do every day?

2. What was the date in Chapter 4 when Annie wondered how long they’d been at the Hannink’s?

3. How far was the city where Annie and her family lived from Germany?

4. In Chapter 2, when were Jews allowed to shop?

5. When did Jewish children have to begin wearing the stars that identified them as Jews?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Dientje choose a book for the girls to read?

2. How were Sini and Annie disguised when they left home to go into hiding?

3. How did the principal at the school where Rachel taught react when he learned she had received a letter from the Germans firing her?

4. Why didn’t Annie’s parents go to America?

5. Why didn’t the girls sleep in the extra bedroom?

6. How did Johan create a hiding place for the girls?

7. Why did Rachel refuse to go into hiding?

8. How did Annie get permission to visit her mother in the hospital?

9. Why did Annie’s bus stop on the way to Enschede?

10. Why did the yellow stars that the Jews had to wear infuriate Father?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

People in the book had different feelings about wearing a star that identified them as Jews. What was the general feeling about wearing the star? How did the members of Annie’s family feel about it? How did Annie feel? Why were there mixed feelings about wearing it?

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 9, danger threatened the girls and the Oostervelds. What dangers did they face? What were the Oostervelds risking by taking care of the girls? Why was it so important for the girls to be hidden?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 11, Sini refused to hide any longer. What happened to Sini that made her refuse to hide? What did she insist on getting? What did she do that allowed her not to hide?

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