A Night Divided Chapters 28-31

Even though Gerta wants her friendship with Anna back, she is unkind to her because

• She can't get over the fact that she snubbed her at school.
• She doesn't need her help tunneling
• she doesn't want Anna to find out they are tunneling instead of gardening.
• she doesn't want to share the harvest with Anna

"The splinters from the other end of the (shovel) handle stuck out of the earth like a porcupine's quills."  What type of figurative language is this?

• personification
• metaphor
• alliteration
• simile

Who discovered Gerta and Fritz in the tunnel?

• Anna Warner
• Frau Eberhart
• Officer Muller
• Herr Krause

Explain how Officer Muller knew they were tunneling.

• He had seen the pulley and the wheelbarrow when he peeked in the window
• He could tell Fritz and Anna were lying
• He had seen the pulley and the fresh dirt when he peeked in the window
• He had seen Anna be rude to Anna; therefore, he knew something was going on.

What clues led Gerta to realize that Officer Muller had a family?

• He wore a wedding ring and had a milk stain on his shoulder
• He wore a wedding ring and mentioned his son.
• He said he did not have time to worry with what she and her brother were doing because he had supper waiting at home
• He wore a wedding ring

What was the crisis in the tunnel that could have caused the tunnel to collapse?

• Fritz did not place the boards perpendicular in the tunnel
• Anna was dumping dirt from the tunnel on ground directly above where they were digging.
• Fritz nicked a pressurized water pipe with the shovel. Water was spraying everywhere.
• Fritz tried to cram the wheelbarrow into the tunnel and hit a water line.

What character trait BEST describes Fritz when he fixed the pipe with an old bicycle tube?

• determined
• resourceful
• unimaginative
• lazy