The Hiding Place Chapters 1-3

What did Betsie and Corrie Ten Boom disagree about regarding the 100th year anniversary of the clock shop?

• whether to make it a surprise party or not

• how to decorate the shop's window display

• who needed to be invited to the celebration

• whether or not it was officially the right day for the 100 year celebration

Willem brought a Jewish guest to the Ten Boom's house on the 100th anniversary celebration. What had a group of German teens from Munich done to the Jewish man before he had escaped to safety in Holland?

• set fire to his beard

• stolen all his belongings

• beat him up and spit on him

• set fire to his home

What did Corrie say was the reason for Mr. Kan's frequent visits to the clock shop?

• He had a romantic interest in Betsy and felt if he continued to pursue her, she would finally agree to marry him.

• He was a cherished friend of her father's and wanted to spend precious time with the Ten Boom family.

• He was hoping that Corrie's father would hire him.

• He was trying to see how much they were charging so he could undersell them.

Pickwick was the nickname that Corrie and her sister gave Herman Sluring. He was _____________________.

• short, fat, and ugly

• the meanest man they had ever met

• a thief who made his living being a "pick-pocket".

• handsome, young, and quick-witted

Corrie's father could never bear a house without _______________.

• music

• laughter

• children

• flowers

Tante Jans, Corrie's aunt, moved into the Ten Boom house when Corrie was young. She took the two second-story rooms of the front house for her personal use. What did she do with her most of her time?

• wrote Christian tracts for her ministry

• wrote anti-German tracts and had them distributed throughout Holland

• ran a dress shop and used the money to support orphans in Holland

• taught school to the underprivileged in the city of Haarlem

What did Corrie's father do every Monday?

• Went to the Jewish synagogue to pass out Christian literature

• Hosted a Bible study for the men of Haarlem

• traveled to Amsterdam to get the time from the Naval Observatory

• met up with Mr. Kan to play a game of chess and talk about politics

What event happened that affected young Corrie so much that she couldn't eat supper?

• Seeing a dead baby and worrying about her own loved ones dying

• Seeing Tante Jans suffer with a deadly illness and realizing she was going to die from it eventually

• Watching her sister Nollie have a child die in childbirth

• An emotional experience at her church's revival one night where she realized she wasn't saved

Why was Corrie upset that the liquid in the beaker was black?

• because she had not followed the experiment correctly and it was going to reflect poorly on her

• because that meant that Tante Jans diabetes was no longer controlled and she was dying

• because the store clerk had not done his job properly and now she would have to redo all the work before her father saw it

• because it meant that she was sick and would be contagious around others

As Corrie and Karel talked about marriage, what was the one thing they disagreed about?

• how to tell their parents

• what time of year they should get married

• who should be invited to the wedding

• how many children they should have