Boy in the Striped Pajamas ch:4

Where do you think all the mothers and grandmothers are?

• they have been removed and put to another sector of the camp

• they have been taken to factories to work for the Nazis

• they have been moved to the kitchens to cook for the other prisoners

• they have been given jobs in kindergartens to teach the children

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Why is there so much barbed wire on very high fences?

• the camp kommandant has a barbed wire factory

• the fences are not high enough

• to stop people getting in to the camp

• extra security for desperate prisoners trying to escape

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Why do you think Gretel is unable to speak?

• she has a very sore throat from a bad cold

• she sees that Auschwitz is very grey, colorless and very scary

• she is thinking about her new house

• she is fed up with Bruno because he is annoying

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Which horrific misperception does Gretel have between Berlin and where they are now?

• that they must be at a holiday camp

• that Berlin is better than anywhere else

• that Auschwitz is only 30 minutes from the city

• that they will soon be going home

How does Gretel display her naivety?

• by telling Bruno that she is more mature than he is

• by saying how much she loves the new place

• by thinking that what she saw the soldiers doing was like a rehearsal for a show or film

• by believing that the war would be over soon

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Which striking imagery is used by the author to display the German soldiers cruelty?

• that of children playing football and losing the game

• that of the blue skies above grey buildings

• that of the distressed children being laughed at by the soldiers

• that of the train arriving at Auschwitz late

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What does Gretel say that shows she has prejudices straight from her mother and father?

• children who go to countryside holiday camps are just not fun to play with

• only german officers' children were good fun to play with

• she claims that jewish children were fun to play with but not those ones

• she states how those children were not the type they should play with, and that they were filthy

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What are the clothes like that the people are wearing?

• grey pajamas with a grey hat

• grey pajamas

• grey striped pajamas

• grey striped pajamas with a grey striped cap

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this chapter is very informative about the Bruno and Gretal because

• it makes us further aware of how good Nazi kids were taught at school

• it informs the reader all about the way Nazis lived in Berlin

• it highlights the prejudice, naivety and ignorance of the children

• it displays how clever Gretal is compared to bruno

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The children's house was a fair distance away from the camp because

• they hadn't finished the normal quarters at the camp yet

• the Kommandant did not want to see, hear or smell what was going on in Auschwitz after his shift finished

• officers were never located near the other soldiers in nazi Germany

• the swimming pool could not fit into Auschwitz's water supply, and needed its own one

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