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WorksheetsA Night Divided
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
On August 13, 1961, what event occurred while everyone slept?
WW2 began
Germany was split into thirds
Gerta and her family escaped to West Berlin
A wall was built around the city to divide East and West Berlin
What family members were in the west and hadn't come home yet?
Gerta, her mother, and Fritz
Gerta and her mother
Her father and her brother Dominic
Gerta, Dominic, and Fritz
What did Peter Warner try to do and how did he plan to accomplish it?
He tried to escape by swimming the Spree River
He tried to escape in a car driven by university students
He tried to escape by bribing the border police
Who were the Stasi?
The Westerners
The secret police
The border police
The university students
Who is the author of A Night Divided?
Jennifer A. Nielsen
Gary Soto
Lauren Wolk
What is the name of Gerta's best friend?
Anna
Jennifer
Jessica
Diane
Why did the Stasi come for Herr Krause?
He was not following curfew guidelines.
He was giving food to those in need.
He was writing secret notes and making his own stamps.
What did Gerta sneak out to get before curfew was lifted and why?
A shovel to help dig the tunnel
A package from Papa with money in it
A pulley to help lift dirt from the tunnel
Why did Gerta go to Anna's building?
To see how wide the death strip is
To look for evidence that Anna was a spy
To apologize and try to be friends again
What was the land called between East and West Germany?
The Wired Wall
The Spree
The Death Strip
What is an ostmark?
bird
bread
money
vegetable
What are schreibergarten?
allotted spaces for growing a garden
border police
watchtowers along the Berlin Wall
secret police
What did they offer to Mueller that made him not kill them?
That he and his family could escape with them
Vegetables
Information about Herr Krause
Money
Even though Gerta wants her friendship with Anna back, she still acts unkind to her. Why?
Anna is unkind to her, so why be kind back?
She doesn't want Anna and her family to find out about the tunnel.
Anna hurt Gerta's feelings
What is special about the lady Gerta meets in the dark?
She was Mama's best friend
She was Gerta's cousin
She told Gerta about the tunnel
She knew Gerta's father
"The splinters from the other end of the shovel handle stuck out of the earth like a porcupine's quills." What type of figurative language is this?
simile
metaphor
What is the solution that Gerta comes up with for the weeds?
She just lets them grow.
She covers them with dirt.
She washes them in the river.
She pulls them out.
What did Gerta see that told her Anna was a spy?
muddy boots
a badge
new clothes
letters from the Stasi
Mueller said this was their greatest enemy:
Grenzers
Stasi
Money
Time
Why was Mom so upset about the sheets?
They were lost in the river.
They were stolen from Herr Krause.
They were a gift from her grandmother.
They were never going to be white again.
