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BISP Ch. 1-6

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 26mins

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Class
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1.

“What are you doing?” he asked in as polite a tone as he could muster, for although he wasn’t happy to come home and find someone going through his possessions, his mother had always told him that he was to treat Maria respectfully….


Based on the passage, what does the word muster mean

a)

Taste

b)

Collect

c)

Smell

d)

Skip

2.

Who is Bruno?

a)

a soldier (the antagonist)

b)

the father

c)

the best friend

d)

the son (protagonist)

3.

Mother sighed and looked around the room as if she might never see it again. It was a very beautiful house and had five floors in total if you included the basement, where Cook made all the food and Maria and Lars sat around the table arguing with each other….


What would most readers infer about Bruno’s family based on the passage?

a)

The family is rude and the children are snobbish

b)

The family is quite wealthy.

c)

The family lives in a large city.

d)

The family owns a hotel

4.

“Say goodbye to them?” he repeated, sputtering out the words as if his mouth was full of biscuits that he’d munched into tiny pieces but had not actually swallowed yet.


What literary devices are employed in the passage?

a)

simile, hyperbole

b)

simile, imagery

c)

metaphor, imagery

d)

metaphor, hyperbole

5.

Who is Gretel?

a)

Bruno’s sister

b)

Father’s secretary

c)

Bruno’s babysitter

d)

Father’s mother

6.

Who is Maria and Lars?

a)

Bruno’s best friends

b)

Gretel’s best friends

c)

the family maid and butler

d)

the family cousins

7.

What can the reader infer based on the following passage? “Well, I don’t like the way we have to turn all the lights off at night now,” he admitted. “Everyone has to do that,” said Mother. “It keeps us safe. And who knows, maybe…

a)

The family is poor and needs to save energy.

b)

The family is hiding from the government.

c)

The family is trying to become accustomed to what it is like to be blind.

d)

The family is in some sort of dangerous situation

8.

Why does the family have to move out of their home and away from Berlin?

a)

They have been evicted from their house.

b)

Gretel has been accepted at a very important school in another town.

c)

Father’s employer needs him to go somewhere else to perform a special job.

d)

The family is moving to a larger home in a different neighborhood.

9.

What does Bruno notice that all of the people outside of his window are wearing?

a)

jeans and sweatshirts

b)

grey striped pajamas and grey striped caps

c)

flannel pajamas and bedroom shoes

d)

orange striped pajamas and tennis shoes

10.

Father held a hand in the air, which immediately caused the other men to fall silent. It was as if he was the conductor of a barbershop quartet.


What can we infer about Father from this passage

a)

He is a barber.

b)

He is in a musical quartet and very musically gifted.

c)

He is very powerful and respected.

d)

He is somewhat of an airhead and cannot follow through with simple tasks.

11.

Based on the chapters we have read so far, we can infer exactly what type of soldiers Bruno observes. What type are they?

a)

Confederate soldiers

b)

Nazi soldiers

c)

Indian soldiers

d)

Union soldier

12.

"As they left, they stood in a row together like toy soldiers and their arms shot out in the same way that Father had taught Bruno to salute…"


What type of figurative language is used in this sentence? and What is being compared with this figurative language?

a)

Hyperbole, the soldiers to Bruno

b)

Simile, b. the soldiers’ arms to palm trees

c)

Alliteration, repetitive F sound

d)

Simile,. the soldiers to toy soldiers