8th Grade Semester Exam 5/20/19

"Whoever named Himmel Street certainly had a healthy sense of Irony." This quote is an example of irony because...

• Himmel is actually translated to mean hell.

• Himmel is translated to mean heaven.

• Himmel is where Liesel met Hans Hubermann.

• Himmel is where Leisel's nightmare began.

".....Rosa Hubermann, who looked like a small wardrobe with a coat thrown over it." This quote from part one uses what type of figurative language?

• Personification
• Methaphor
• Hyberbole
• Simile

" Ash stumbled from its edge and lunged and lifted several times until it hit the ground." What type of figurative language is used in the quote above?

• Personification
• Simile
• Oxymoron
• Hyperbole

"He had already cheated me in one world war but later be put into another......" In this quote "me" refers to ________.

• Hans
• Death
• the government
• Liesel

The boy next door to Liesel, Ruby Steiner, was obsessed with an American athlete. With which athlete was he obsessed?

• Joe Louis
• Jesse Owens
• Henry Armstrong
• Hank Aaron

Who is the book narrated by?

• Liesel

• Hans

• Max

• Death

What is the first book Liesel reads?

• The Invisible Man

• Mein Kampf

• The Rainbow Man

• The Grave Digger's Handbook

What German city is Himmel Street located?

• Berlin

• Munich

• Dresden

• Frankfurt

Liesel and Max are initially aware of each other. They begin to form a friendship when they start comparing their nightmares. Their nightmares are similar because ____________________________________.

• They both dream of being chased by dogs, and both are afraid of dogs.
• They both dream of being sent to the concentration camps.
• They both had to leave family behind in order to escape to safety.
• They both dislike Rosa Hubermann and think she is a monster.

When Death comes for Liesel, he gives her a book he rescued from the rubble the night of the bombing. What is the book's title?

• The Book Thief
• The Grave Digger's Handbook
• The Whistler
• The Word Shaker