Number the Stars: Quiz Chapters 1-2

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1. Annemarie, Kristie, and Ellen were ____________ on the way home from school.

• a) dancing
• b) racing
• c) walking

2. _________________ stopped the girls.

• a) German soldiers
• b) Their parents
• c) The shopkeepers

3. Resistance means _______________________

• a) Germans living in Denmark
• b) Nazi soldiers
• c) Danish people who tried to harm the Nazis

4. How had the war affected the people of Denmark?

• a) Children could no longer attend school.
• b) The people of Copenhagen could not get certain foods such as butter, coffee, and sugar
• c) Everyone was happy.

5. Christian X’s bodyguards were ___________________

• a) All of Denmark
• b) The Danish soldiers
• c) The royal guards

6. What happened to Lise?

• a) Lise married Peter.
• b) Lise died in an accident
• c) Lise went to Christian X’s palace to work.

7. Which sequence best describes the order of events in Chapter 1 “Why Are You Running?”? 1) The German soldiers stop the girls. 2) The girls arrive home, quietly so a pair of soldiers on their corner will not notice them. 3) The soldiers let the girls go warning them not to run away anymore. 4) The soldiers interrogate (ask questions) the girls. 5) Annmarie, Kristi, and Ellen race home from school.

• a) 5,1,4,3,2
• b) 5,1,4,2,3
• c) 1,5,3,4,2

8. The conflict in the story is mostly the result of which event?

• a) The real king of Denmark, Christina X is badly injured from a fall from his horse
• b) Rationing of foods such as butter and sugar
• c) Lise’s death
• d) The German occupation

9. Which text evidence from "Number the Stars" best supports the belief that Peter was unhappy?

• a) “He no longer sang the nonsense songs that had once made Annmarie and Kristi shriek with laughter.”
• b) “Annmarie listened, and she knew what her mother was referring to. De Fri Danske-The Free Dames- was an illegal newspaper; Peter Neilsen brought it to them occasionally, carefully folded and hidden among ordinary books and papers, and Mama always burned it after she and Papa had read it.”
• c) “Lise was a grownup girl of eighteen, then, about to be married to Peter Neilsen.”
• d) “Redheaded Peter, her sister’s fiancé, had not married anyone in the years since Lise’s death.”