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Hana's Suitcase

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What type of book is Hana's Suitcase?

a)

autobiography

b)

biography

c)

realistic fiction

d)

historical fiction

2.

How many continents does the book address?

a)

none

b)

4

c)

3

3.

What are the 3 continents addressed in the book?

a)

Toyota, Cola, Croatia

b)

Canada, Japan, Czechoslovakia

c)

Canada, Japan, Russia

4.

What was Hana's brother's name?

a)

George

b)

Ludvig

c)

John

5.

What's Hana's last name?

a)

Brandon

b)

Fumiko

c)

Brady

6.

What is Fumiko's last name?

a)

Ishioka

b)

Brady

c)

Tokyo

7.

Why did Fumiko start the project that led to Hana?

a)

She was sad.

b)

She wanted to learn from the strength of survivors.

c)

She met Holocaust survivors in Israel.

8.

How did Fumiko want to start teaching children about the Holocaust?

a)

By reading a story about Hana

b)

By talking to survivors in Tokyo

c)

Through things they could see and touch

9.

How did Fumiko get Hana's suitcase?

a)

She found it in a thrift store.

b)

One of the survivors gave it to her.

c)

She borrowed it from a museum

10.

What town did Hana and her family live before this got bad?

a)

Nove Mesto

b)

Moravia

c)

Czechoslovakia

11.

How did Hana and George 1st hear about the Nazis?

a)

from the newspapers

b)

secret listening to their parents

c)

from their friends

12.

On New Year's Eve what did Hana and her cousins do that was a foreshadow?

a)

pack a bag to visit family

b)

sing a lullaby about a mom going away

c)

launch walnut boats with a candle in it

13.

What did most people remember about Mrs Brady?

a)

The food she made

b)

The way she sang

c)

Her loud booming laugh

14.

Who was the first person in Hana's family to be sent away?

a)

Mr. Brady

b)

Mrs. Brady

c)

George Brady

15.

Who is pictured here?

a)

Hana, Boshka, George

b)

Hana, Mom, George

c)

Hana, Fumiko, George

16.

Where was Hana's mom sent?

a)

Theresienstadt

b)

Germany

c)

Ravensbruck

17.

Who was the 2nd person in Hana's family to be sent away?

a)

George

b)

Hana

c)

Mr. Brady

18.

Why wasn't Uncle Ludvik sent away?

a)

He was hiding when they came

b)

They weren't up to his name yet

c)

He was Christian, not Jewish

19.

What did Mrs. Brady sacrifice to send Hana a gift?

a)

Her hard earned money

b)

Her ration of food

c)

Her freedom

20.

What was the name of the kids Fumiko worked with?

a)

The Little Eagles

b)

Team Hana Brady

c)

The Small Wings

21.

Who wrote Hana's Suitcase?

a)

Karen Levine

b)

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

c)

Fumiko Ishioka

d)

George Brady

22.

Hana was born on May 16, 1931. What did she want to be when she grew up?

a)

a shop owner, like her parents

b)

a teacher

c)

a painter

23.

What were his cruel prisons for Jewish people called?

a)

concentration camps

b)

jails

c)

deportation stations

d)

the bastille

24.

What does "waisenkind" mean in German? (Hint: it was written on Hana's suitcase.)

a)

orphan

b)

wise man

c)

kind person

25.

Who took George and Hana to live with them when their parents had both been taken away?

a)

Uncle Ludvic and Aunt Heda

b)

a friend who set the church clock 15 minutes slow to helped Hana's father listen to the radio despite the curfews

c)

Mr. Rott, who had suggested earlier on that they all flee to America, Canada, or Palestine.

d)

Ella, who befriended Hana in the Kinderheim L410 .

26.

Hana and her brother were turned away from the theater where they went to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. What color star did they have to wear when going out?

a)

yellow

b)

green

c)

red

d)

blue

27.

What did a check mark next to a name in the Terezin list mean?

a)

it meant that the person did not survive

b)

it meant that the person took two food rations

28.

How old was Hana when she died.

a)

11

b)

12

c)

13

29.

One day, George told Hana to meet him at the Boys House a 6:00 PM for a surprise. What was the surprise?

a)

Mother and Father were there

b)

Grandmother arrived

c)

An old family friend was there

30.

When Hana and Geroge went to go see the ________________ movie, they saw a sign saying, "No Jews Allowed"

a)

Little Mermaid

b)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

c)

Frozen 1931

d)

Inside Hana's Suitcase

31.

How did Hana and George first hear about the Nazis?

a)

From their friend

b)

From their housekeeper

c)

Secretly listening to their parents

32.

What does Jude mean

a)

Jew

b)

Enemy

c)

Friend

d)

Germany

33.

What incident caused Nove Mesto to be cleared of Jews?

a)

Someone refusing to follow the curfew rules

b)

Someone refusing to wear David's Star properly

c)

Someone refusing to hand over their belongings

34.

How did Fumiko want to start teaching children about the Holocaust?

a)

By reading a story about Hana

b)

By talking to survivors in Tokyo

c)

Through things they could see and touch

35.

Hana often imagined that she was what?

a)

a singer

b)

an actress

c)

a dancing princess

36.

Hana's greatest fear was realized when she was --

a)

Shipped to Berlin to work in a munitions factory.

b)

forced to cut off her long hair.

c)

separated from her brother at Theresienstadt.

d)

Sent to care for her grandmother at Ravensbruck.

37.

What did George do the day before he was shipped from Theresienstadt?

a)

He wrote a loving poem for Hana

b)

He gave Hana his last ration.

c)

He paid a guard to protect Hana.

d)

He took Hana to see their father.