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The Book Thief

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is the book narrated by?

a)

Liesel

b)

Hans

c)

Max

d)

Death

2.

What is the narrator interested with?

a)

Smells

b)

Colours

c)

Sounds

d)

Scenes

3.

What instrument does Hans play?

a)

Flute

b)

Guitar

c)

Accordion

d)

Violin

4.

What is the first book Liesel reads?

a)

The Invisible Man

b)

Mein Kampf

c)

The Rainbow Man

d)

The Grave Digger's Handbook

5.

Himmel Street means:

a)

Heaven Street

b)

Hate Street

c)

Happy Street

d)

Hardship Street

6.

What does Rosa do for work?

a)

She doesn't have a job

b)

She works at the local cafe

c)

She is an accountant

d)

She washes people's laundry

7.

What does Hans do for work?

a)

He is a builder

b)

He is a musician

c)

He is a painter

d)

He is a politician

8.

Who did the accordion once belong to?

a)

Liesel's mother

b)

Han's father

c)

Rosa's father

d)

Max's father

9.

Why is Liesel teased at school?

a)

She can't speak German.

b)

She can't read or write.

c)

She is bad at singing.

d)

The students find out her mother is a communist.

10.
When this book opens, what year is it?
a)
1933
b)
1942
c)
1939
d)
1946
11.
".....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?
a)
Personification
b)
Methaphor
c)
Hyberbole
d)
Simile
12.
"I would hasten to admit, however, that there was a considerable hiatus between the first stolen book and the second." Which of the following words could replace hiatus in the sentence above and keep the same meaning?
a)
travel
b)
break
c)
discussion
d)
punishment
13.

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

a)

Joe Louis

b)

Jesse Owens

c)

Henry Armstrong

d)

Hank Aaron

14.

In the film, the second book Liesel reads with Papa is:

a)

The Grave Digger's Handbook

b)

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells

c)

Charlotte's Web E. B. White

d)

The Messenger by Markus Zusak

15.

"He looks like death" suggests what?

a)

He is very pale

b)

He looks menacing and violent

c)

He is dressed in black

d)

The character looks extremely ill and exhausted

16.

Why did Max seek shelter with the Hubermanns?

a)

He was cold

b)

He was on the run

c)

He was Jewish

d)

He was a Nazi

17.

What does Leisel mean when she says her new mama is "like a thunderstorm"?

a)

Mama is loud

b)

Mama makes people nervous and on edge

c)

Mama shakes the house when she walks

d)

Mama turns everything into a catastrophe