"Teens Against Hitler" QUIZ

Lauren Tarshis quotes Ben Kamm as saying, "Who could imagine such things?" (p.7)

Which of the following ideas does this quote best support?

• The partisans helped save many Jewish people.

• Ben’s family was killed in the Holocaust.

• No one expected the Holocaust to happen.

• Anti-Semitism was a fact of life in many European cities during the 1920s and ’30s.

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Which is another way that Tarshis supports the idea that you chose as your answer to question 1?

• She compares the partisans to characters in Robin Hood.

• She quotes Ben as saying, “We took them with us, and they survived the war.” (p.10)

• She explains that after World War I, the German people felt humiliated, tired, and bitter.

• She describes a typical evening in the Kamm household before the war

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Which best describes the Warsaw ghetto?

• a poor Jewish neighborhood in Warsaw

• an area in Warsaw where Jewish people were forced to live

• a concentration camp in Warsaw

• a partisan base outside of Warsaw

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Consider this line: “The man’s words are like the cold wind that blows off the nearby Vistula River.” (p. 6) What is the purpose of the simile?

• to help the reader understand how cold the wind from the Vistula River feels

• to help the reader understand that the man’s words make Ben uncomfortable, but only briefly

• to hint that the man is a Nazi

• to tell the reader about the weather

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In the section “Luck and Sorrow” on page 10, which pair of words best describe Tarshis’s tone as she writes about the end of World War II?

• victorious, admiring

• furious, aggressive

• somber, factual

• shocked, questioning

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The journal entry on page 9 helps you understand more about...

• the relationships between the partisans and the people they were protecting in the forests.

• why Ben decided to join the partisans.

• the kinds of attacks that partisans carried out against the Germans.

• what Ben’s life was probably like as a partisan.

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