The Book Thief Questions Test Answers – Flashcards
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What book does Liesel find and bring to the Hubermans?
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The Gravedigger's Handbook
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What was the "Jesse Owen's Incident"?
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A boy blackened his skin and ran a pretend race
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Who is the narrator?
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Death
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The narrator starts by explaining that he relates to human initially through what?
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Colors
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What does Liesel sometimes do for Mr. Huberman?
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Roll his cigarets
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What did they find out about Liesel at the catholic school?
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She could not read
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The narrator translates "Himmel" (as in the street) as...
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Heaven
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The various curse words used by Mrs. Huberman make reference to what?
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Pigs
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Liesel is beaten by mama because she spent the laundry money on what?
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Postage
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What sees Liesel steal the Shoulder Shrug?
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The governors wife
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Why does mama send Liesel out to collect the laundry by herself?
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She is losing her laundry customers and she thinks her customers will feel sorry for the child
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Why does Liesel receive receive a watschen from the nun?
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She recites from the Gravediggers Manual and fighting
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Papa slaps Liesel for what reason?
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She says she hates Hitler
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Who buys a copy of Mein Kampf?
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Papa
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At the rally the Nazi speaker identifies whom as the source of the disease infecting Germany?
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Jews and Communists
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The narrator tells us that Nazi Germany would have "come to nothing" if it weren't for the fact that Germans ... What?
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Love fire
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The narrator explains the first time Liesel is called "the book theif." Who calls her that?
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Rudy
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Rudy gets caught steeling a ...
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A potato
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The Hubermans have a happy Christmas because they build what in the basement?
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A snowman
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What are the following? A candy wrapper, a cloud, a pinecone.
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Gifts for Max
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How does Liesel her back into the governors house in the dead of winter?
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The same open window
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Who throws Liesels book into the river?
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Victor Chemmel
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Why does Rusa Huberman visit Liesel at school?
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To tell her Max is awake
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Why do Nazis enter the Hubermans house?
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They air looking for air raid shelters
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What is the "LSE"?
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Hans air-raid duties
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Who were the "three desperate men"?
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Hans, Max and Mr. Steiner
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What do "word shakers" shake?
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Trees
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The next time they go to steal from Ilsa, Liesel finds out the library belongs to ...
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Ilsa
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Who is the man with the bloody hands, who answers the door at Frau Holtzapfel's house, when Liesel goes to read?
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Frau Holtzapfel's son
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Why does Rudy assemble a "tool box"?
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To steal
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When death comes to collect the crashed pilot, who does he say recognizes him?
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Liesel
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The phrase "the end if the world (part 1&2)" refers to what?
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The bombing of Himmel Street
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Death explains that some souls "light". The ones who ...
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Wait for him sitting up
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Why does Michael Holzapfel write to his mother "there must be a place in heaven for people who have been where I've been"?
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He commits suicide
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When Liesel sees Max in the march, his hair is compared to ...
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Twigs
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When Liesel tears up the book at Ilsas she is mad at what?
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Words
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Who prompts Liesel to write
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Ilsa
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At the end, it is implied that who took care if Liesel after the death of Rosa and Hans?
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The Hermanns
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It says in The Last Human Stranger that the earth is "stirred" by what?
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The sun
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The Shoulder Shrug had a Jewish protagonist who was a rich man who was tired ...
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Of letting life pass him by
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What is the reason the mayors wife is so sad?
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She has lost a child
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Liesel and Rudy fall in with a gang who ...
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Steals from farmers
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What makes Liesel vomit?
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Apples
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Rudy and Liesel cause a boy on a bike to crash as he is delivering food to ...
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Priests
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We find out where Hans's accordion came from — where?
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Max's father
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Death explains that Hans was spared from the WWI battle becuase ...
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He was nominated for good penmanship
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Why does Liesel call out for papa, while Max was sleeping in her room?
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Max was squeezing her arm
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Why did Hans all of a sudden get a lot more work?
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People needed their windows painted black
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What is described as the "best time" of Liesels life?
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Working with Hans
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What did Rudy do "on purpose"?
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False started one of the races
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After receiving the letter from Ilsa, Liesel goes up to the front door of the house. Who is said to find her there?
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Her brother
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Frau Hotlzapfel,s "offer" is to give coffee in exchange for what?
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Liesel reading to her
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What did Hans do that made him an idiot?
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He helped a Jew
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Why did the men in coats visit the Steiners?
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He is a good athlete
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Liesel can't stop thinks about Rudy ...
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Getting a physical
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Max's eyes are repeatedly described as?
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Swampy
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The name of the book that Max makes for Liesel is called ...
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The Standover Man
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Max makes the book out of ...
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Pages from Mein Kampf
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Death apologizes for being rude and giving away the ending, revealing that who dies?
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Rudy
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Liesel finds newspapers for Max so he can ...
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Do the crossword
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Max has fantasies about ...
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Boxing Hitler
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Which best described Rudy's relationship to the Hitler youth?
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He is disciplined for sticking up for an awkward kid
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"The Losers" chapter shifts to Liesel and Rudy ...
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Rejoining the theft gang
