The Book Thief Quiz

Who is the narrator of the novel?

• an unnamed Nazi

• Liesel

• Death

• God

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Which choice best describes the narrator?

• sympathetic and somewhat kind

• angry and bitter

• nonchalant and apathetic

• unhappy and hopeless

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What line from the text best supports the answer to #37?

• “Still, it was better than the gas.”

• “I don’t have the luxury of indulging fatigue.”

• “In complete desolation, I looked at the world above.”

• “I picked up each soul that day as if it were newly born.”

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Why is the narrator so tired?

• He hasn’t had any sleep

• He’s been very busy during the Holocaust because there’s so many people dying

• He’s been traveling from camp to camp

• He hasn’t found anything he can use as a distraction

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The “smoky sky” and the “smell like a stove” probably refers to:

• the gas chambers

• the death wall

• the crematoria

• the barracks

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In the line, “They just kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower,” they refers to

• the Nazis

• the Jews

• the allied forces

• the camp prisoners

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In the same line, “Shower after shower” is referring to:

• the crematoria

• the gas chambers

• the barracks

• the death wall

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At times, the narrator seems to say that death is better than life in the camps. Which line from the text supports that opinion?

• “They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.”

• “We climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity’s certain breadth.”

• “All of them were so light, like the cases of empty walnuts.

• ” “I watched their love visions and freed them from their fear.”

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“He remained shrouded in his uniform as the graying light arm-wrestled the sky,” is an example of

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• Metaphor

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“All of them were so light, like the cases of empty walnuts,” is an example of:

• simile

• hyperbole

• personification

• Metaphor

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