Questão 1
Questão
Why is it ironic that Liesel steals The Gravedigger's Handbook?
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She's been digging graves since she could walk, she doesn't need a handbook
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She's already dead. A la the Sixth Sense.
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She can't read. Makes the whole book thing a little difficult.
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She meant to steal Ditch Digging Handbook.
Questão 2
Questão
Why is Hans conscripted? - Select all correct answers.
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He writes a pop song about Hitler.
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He is the best goose stepper in Germany.
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He paints a full beard on a Hitler poster.
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He fed a Jewish prisoner a piece of bread.
Questão 3
Questão
Why does Hans get to come home? - Select all correct answers.
Questão 4
Questão
Death snags a lock of hair from Liesel after the bombing.
Questão 5
Questão
Who narrates The Book Thief?
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God
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Spongebob Squarepants
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Death
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Liesel Meminger
Questão 6
Questão
Liesel is running away from home at the start of the novel.
Questão 7
Questão
Liesel’s brother dies during the train ride.
Questão 8
Questão
What book is in Liesel’s suitcase when she arrives at the Hubermann’s?
Questão 9
Questão
From where does Liesel steal her second book?
Questão 10
Questão
What prompts Hans to hide Max from the Nazis?
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Hans feels it’s his duty to help as many people escape the Nazis as possible
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He was instructed to do so by a rather specific fortune cookie message
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Max’s father saved Hans’s life during World War I
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He lost a round of Rock, Paper, Scissors
Questão 11
Questão
The Gestapo want Rudy to join the military.
Questão 12
Questão
Liesel calls the story of her life [blank_start]The Sound of Music.[blank_end]
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The Sound of Music.
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Himmel Street Blues.
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The Book Thief.
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Little Women.
Questão 13
Questão
Death gives Liesel [blank_start]her book[blank_end] as she dies.
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her book
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angel's wings
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a pass to Heaven
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his business card
Questão 14
Questão
Where did Max Vandenburg go?
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To Israel
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Home
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He died
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To a concentration camp
Questão 15
Questão
This novel is set [blank_start]before World War I.[blank_end]
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before World War I.
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during World War I.
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before World War II.
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during World War II.
Questão 16
Questão
This novel takes place in the city of [blank_start]Munich.[blank_end]
Questão 17
Questão
Who is the Book Thief?
Questão 18
Questão
How does Death affect the narrative style of this book?
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He allows us to see just how many people die.
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He can be many places simultaneously and 'see' everything.
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He's naturally morbid.
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He has no humour, so we get just how serious this all is.
Questão 19
Questão
What does Death want to prove to himself?
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That he can annihilate an entire race himself.
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That humans are inherently selfish.
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That it's worth it to make an effort for humans.
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That humans will always naturally fail.
Questão 20
Questão
After the war, Max lives and learns of Liesel's death.
Questão 21
Questão
Death steals [blank_start]The Book Thief[blank_end]
Questão 22
Questão
How could we argue that Hitler is the Book Thief?
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We can't; he's not a character
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He orders to have enormous numbers of books burned.
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He steals books from burn piles.
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He hoards books in his library.
Questão 23
Questão
Why is Death "haunted by humans"?
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Because he doesn't understand us
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Because it's what God forced him to struggle with
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Because of our capacity for kindness and suffering
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Because ghosts are so passé
Questão 24
Questão
After Liesel steals a book from the bonfire, what does the burning book against Liesel's chest symbolise?
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Guilt
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Hitler's anti-Semitic rhetoric
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Liesel's passion for words
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The physical effect words can have
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Shame
Questão 25
Questão
How is Hans's character developed in Part 4?
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His role in World War I is explained.
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His "secret life" is revealed.
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How he learned accordion is revealed.
Questão 26
Questão
On Hitler's birthday, what was burned in the bonfire?
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Books
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Charcoal
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Enemy propaganda
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Trash
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Firewood
Questão 27
Questão
The death of her brother causes Liesel to...
Questão 28
Questão
Rudy's fight with Franz parallels what other fight in the book?
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Liesel vs. Max
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Liesel vs. Nazi Party
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Max vs. Hitler
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Right vs. wrong
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Rosa vs. Liesel
Questão 29
Questão
The money troubles the Hubermanns experience in Part 2 foreshadow what?
Questão 30
Questão
The Nazi party marching down Himmel Street in Part 1 shows
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how clean the streets are.
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how you can't predict parade routes.
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that Himmel Street is not immune to the Nazi Party.
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that the residents on that street clap the loudest.
Questão 31
Questão
The swastika embroidered on Ilsa's bathrobe symbolizes...
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...how far reaching Nazi Party has become.
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...Ilsa's feelings about Jewish people.
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...Ilsa's poor decorating taste.
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...Nazi propaganda.
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...the Nazi Party.
Questão 32
Questão
Rosa truly hates Liesel.
Questão 33
Questão
What essential theme is introduced in the beginning of The Book Thief?
Questão 34
Questão
Who survived the bombing of Himmel Street?
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Hans
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Liesel
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Max
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Rudy
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Nobody
Questão 35
Questão
Who witnesses Liesel's theft?
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Frau Hermann
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Hans
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Rudy
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The Mayor's wife