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The Book Thief Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the narrator of the novel?

a)

an unnamed Nazi

b)

Liesel

c)

Death

d)

God

2.

Which choice best describes the narrator?

a)

sympathetic and somewhat kind

b)

angry and bitter

c)

nonchalant and apathetic

d)

unhappy and hopeless

3.

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

a)

“Still, it was better than the gas.”

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

4.

Why is the narrator so tired?

a)

He hasn’t had any sleep

b)

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

c)

He’s been traveling from camp to camp

d)

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

5.

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

a)

the gas chambers

b)

the death wall

c)

the crematoria

d)

the barracks

6.

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

a)

the Nazis

b)

the Jews

c)

the allied forces

d)

the camp prisoners

7.

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

a)

the crematoria

b)

the gas chambers

c)

the barracks

d)

the death wall

8.

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

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

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

9.

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

a)

simile

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

Metaphor

10.

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

a)

simile

b)

hyperbole

c)

personification

d)

Metaphor