View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From where are the two German children who come to play with Anna and Max?
(a) Munich.
(b) Stuttgart.
(c) Frankfurt.
(d) Berlin.

2. How old is Anna at the start of the book?
(a) Nine.
(b) Eight.
(c) Seven.
(d) Ten.

3. What is the name of Anna's school friend in Chapter 1?
(a) Mary.
(b) Constance.
(c) Elsbeth.
(d) Lucinda.

4. Why does Anna's family move out of where they are staying?
(a) It no longer allows Jews.
(b) It has been condemned.
(c) It is too expensive.
(d) It is too noisy for her father to work.

5. Where does the family first stay when they are reunited with their father?
(a) In a small apartment.
(b) In a boarding house.
(c) In a hotel.
(d) With his sister.

6. What has Hitler done with the family's property?
(a) Put a lien on it.
(b) Gave it to a Nazi party member.
(c) Has it confiscated.
(d) Had it destroyed.

7. What is the year in Chapter 1?
(a) 1932.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1940.

8. What does Fraulein Heimpel do for Anna's family?
(a) House help.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Babysitter.
(d) Tutor.

9. Why does Anna not have fun when her family goes to the place in Question # 64?
(a) She doesn't understand what she is seeing.
(b) She feels sick.
(c) She is angry at her father.
(d) Her brother teases her too much.

10. What does Anna do before she goes to bed in Chapter 1?
(a) Helps her mother wash dishes.
(b) Speaks to her father.
(c) Gets in a fight with her mother.
(d) Reads a story to her little sister.

11. What does Anna's father say to her about Switzerland?
(a) They are going to enter the war.
(b) They are deporting Jews.
(c) They probably won't stay there.
(d) They are going to turn him over to Hitler.

12. In Chapter 5, who do they find out will not be joining them?
(a) Anna's grandfather.
(b) Onkel Julius.
(c) Fraulein Heimpel.
(d) Anna's uncle.

13. With whom does Anna become better friends after she starts school?
(a) Christine.
(b) Vrenli.
(c) Chamanea.
(d) Bernice.

14. Why does Anna's mother learn knitting?
(a) To make clothes for the children.
(b) She is bored.
(c) To make friends with other women.
(d) To make Anna's father a Hanuka present.

15. Why would Anna's family leave Switzerland?
(a) They are deporting Jews.
(b) So he doesn't have to fight against Germany.
(c) They won't publish her father's writings.
(d) To go to America.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anna's father's writing do to the family?

2. What does Anna tell herself when she hears her mother talking to her grandmother?

3. With what is Anna's father constantly adsorbed?

4. What do Anna and her father decide they might be?

5. How does Anna feel about her new school?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 481 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample