A Night Divided Mid Book Test Review

What happened on Barbed Wire Sunday?

• The Berlin Wall was torn down.
• The Berlin Wall was put up.
• The Iron Curtain was put up.
• The GDR let people escape into the west. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What type of figurative language is being used in the text example below?
“They [West Germany] were growing stronger, while we leaned on Russia like a crutch, pretending to be every bit as strong.”

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

True or false:  The piece of evidence below proves that Gerta feels likes prisoner in her own country.
“Over the past four years, what started as a simple barbed wire fence had evolved into an entire system designed to stop, capture, or kill anyone who tried to get through” (pg. 30). 

• True
• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.8

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.6.1

What literary device is being used in the statement below?
“Since they [the rabbits] couldn’t pass through solid concrete, they would’ve had to dig a tunnel underneath.  Even the animals wanted to leave East Berlin, I supposed” (pg. 31).

• simile
• sensory language
• foreshadowing
• irony

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What does the fragment, "The wall" best represent on the plot diagram of A Night Divided?

• the characters
• the conflict
• the rising action
• the resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Which word best describes Fritz when he first wrote messages to his family and then burned them in the fire?

• observant
• standoffish
• shy
• rude

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Frau Eberhart was described as this to show how dangerous her knowledge of secrets could be.

• rattlesnakes
• tornados
• playful kittens
• fire

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

What piece of evidence below best shows why Herr Krause was arrested by the Stasi?

• “The morning after, Fritz showed me the newspaper that described her as a deserter and someone with a weak mind who had believed the lies from the west” (pg. 15).
•  “…[we] stayed at school as members of the Pioneers and learned why freedom was overrated, why individuality was bad, and why we must always avoid the evil influences of the west” (pg. 19).
• “No citizen was allowed to write his own ideas if they differed from the state message, and certainly it was against the law to distribute those writings” (pg. 72).

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.7.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What is the mood of the following excerpt from the text?
A smile started in the center of my heart and warmed every inch of me.  No matter how hard today had been, how hungry, tired, and thirsty we both were, Fritz planned to tunnel again tomorrow too.

• frustrated
• hopeful
• playful
• threatening

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

To which senses does the following example appeal?
"Our clothes were dirty and smelly and so stiff with sweat that they practically held their shape after we had removed them."

• smell and taste
• smell and hearing
• taste and sight
• smell and sight

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.8.4