WorksheetsThe Children of Willesden Lane Chapters 1-3
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
Where does Lisa Jura live?
Salzburg, Austria
Munich, Germany
Tel Aviv, Israel
Vienna, Austria
On her way to a piano lesson, Lisa discovered that the street named "Mahler-Strasse" was renamed by the Nazis to be "Meistersinger-Strasse" because
they wanted to have more modern names for the streets.
they did not approve of a street being named after a Jew.
Who was standing in the doorway as Lisa approached Professor Isseles's music studio?
her sister
Professor Isseles's assistant
a Nazi soldier
Professor Isseles had arthritis and could no longer play the piano. How did he demonstrate proper piano technique to Lisa and his other students?
He showed them a video of proper technique.
He would play recordings in his gramophone.
He had his assistant show the proper technique.
He showed them diagrams.
When Professor Isseles told Lisa that the Nazis would not allow her or other Jews to take music lessons, he gave her what gift to say goodbye?
A music book
Flowers
A gold chain with piano charm
A journal
Who would teach Lisa piano when the Nazis prevented her from taking lessons from Professor Isseles?
her sister Sonia
her sister Rosie
her father
her mother, Malka
Why was Lisa's mom, Malka, upset with her father, Abraham?
because he stayed out late playing cards
because he worked too much
because he wore tattered clothing
What happened as the Jura family prepared for Shabbat (Sabbath)?
The neighbors rang the doorbell.
Nazi troops trashed shops and threw Mr. Mendelsohn into a plate-glass window.
Hitler paraded down the street in the back of a Jeep.
What was the bucket brigade?
people who went out to clean up after a Nazi riot
women to went to clean their neighbors' apartments
people who took buckets through Vienna to collect money
What did the Nazis do to the synagogue (place of worship)?
They kidnapped the Rabbi.
They boarded up the windows.
They threw the scrolls and the Torah (scripture) in the street and set them on fire.
What happened to Lisa's father Abraham's tailor shop?
He lost it because of gambling.
It was closed by government order.
The shop burned down.
He sold it.
What piano piece did Lisa work on mastering?
Debussy's masterpiece "Clair de Lune"
Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies"
Beethoven's "Piano Sonata 23"
The Nazis would not allow Jewish adults to leave Vienna, but they would allow a small number of children to leave on "Kindertransport" trains. Where would they go?
England
Russia
Switzerland
Belgium
How did the Jura family get a spot for one of their children on the "Kindertransport"?
The Nazis wanted to separate families, so sent children away from their parents on the train to England.
The Rabbi provided a ticket for each family in the synagogue.
The Rothbard family wanted to find a way to take their whole family, so they gave them their spot.
They purchased a ticket from the train station.
Why did Lisa's parents choose her to go on the train, rather than her sisters?
Rosie and Sonia were too young.
Lisa was strong and had her music to guide her.
They picked the child who knew how to speak Englsh, since the train would go to England.
Rosie was eighteen, so she was too old, and Sonia was too young.
Where would Lisa stay when she got to London?
with Sir Nicholas Winton, who paid for the Kindertransport
in a hotel for Jewish children
at a boarding school
with Mr. Jura's cousins, Dora and Sid
What did Lisa ask her mother to promise before she left on the Kindertransport?
that she would send Lisa more sheet music
that the family would call Lisa every week
that she would not move anything from their living room while Lisa was away
What did Malka ask Lisa to promise as she was boarding the train?
that she would write every week
that she would call her family when she arrived in London
that she would stay strong
that she would hold on to her music
What was in the envelope that Malka handed Lisa as she boarded the Kindertransport?
money for her journey and to get settled in England
names of people to contact when she arrived in England
a picture of Malka at Lisa's last piano recital with inscription "From the mother who will never forget you"
