"Hugo leaves. Helmuth stands at the window, watches as Hugo crosses to the corner. It's drizzling. The black pavement gleams wet. The street is quiet. Oddly quiet. No police. No pedestrians. Just the distant rumble of a streetcar" (Section 4, pg. 70). What mood does the above description convey, or show?
What is the cause of the riots that occur all over Germany at the beginning of Section 4?
In the novel Mutti says, "Silence is how people get on sometimes." This quote demonstrates -
Why does Gerhard move into the spare bedroom at his grandparents' apartment?
What is purpose behind the Extraordinary Radio Law? What would happen to someone who broke this law?
What bombshell do Mutti and Hugo drop on Helmuth?
Gerhard brings what object back with him when he returns home on leave?
Which friend helps Helmuth create the detective agency?
According to the novel, the Jungvolk is -
What is the name of Helmuth's detective agency?
Helmuth believes that he and his friend have an advantage to finding out information about crimes because -
What does Inspector Becker give Helmuth?
Which of the following passages from the novel BEST proves that Helmuth feels unsure that Franz Seemann was actually guilty of murder?
True or false: After the case with Franz Seemann ends, the boys continue to help Inspector Becker solve other cases.
Why is Rudi reported as a potential enemy agent?
"Rudi looks ready to cry. 'They fired question after question at me. They took my words, twisted them, and used them against me. They wanted to know what adults were involved. '
This is unfair!' says Helmuth. 'A Gestapo badge is not a license to abuse innocent people.'
Rudi quiets him. 'I told them to ask Inspector Becker, that he would know who I am. The men wrote his name down and then said they'd check out my story, and for my sake, I better not be lying. I'll never forget the look in their eyes - like they enjoyed scaring me - and then they said, 'We'll find out the truth. We always do.'"
These excerpts from the novel prove that the Gestapo (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY) -
As a punishment for Helmuth's behavior and comment in class, Herr Vinke assigns the class to -
Which two characters get into an argument while Helmuth tries to write his essay?
"Helmuth knows he's supposed to support his country and its leaders, and yet the Nazis feel dark and threatening, too."
Helmuth's battle about going back and forth as to whether or not he should support Hitler's ideas is an example of -
For his essay, Helmuth decides to write -
"The inside of Helmuth's head feels like crashing cymbals. The words, the sentences, waver, bang apart, come back together again until at least he's finished. He stares at the handwritten pages and feels worse than a coward. He feels like a traitor, a traitor to his brother but mostly a traitor to himself. A traitor to his true feelings."
The above passage from the novel illustrates an -
Franz's arrest and imprisonment proves that -
Who are the Gestapo?
What does the word "verboten" mean?
What major event occurs at the end of Section 3?
Why did Helmuth's brother Gerhard join the German army?
According to the novel, where were the Jews on the train being shipped?
Why did Gerhard say that Hans will never be drafted by Germany to fight in the war?
What was the name of the new law that forbade Germans to listen to foreign radio stations?
Who foreshadows Helmuth's fate by stating, "You had better watch your step or you could find yourself sitting in jail---or worse."
What song was Helmuth singing as he, Karl, and Rudi walked home from choir practice?
Why did the Junior Gestapo boys tell Helmuth he shouldn't be singing that song?
In Brother Worbs' prayer, what does he refer to the Nazis as?
How did Helmuth spend New Year's Eve, 1940?
When the story reverts back to prison, what did Helmuth say he'd trade his soup for?
The Nazi storm troopers attacking Jewish people, businesses, churches, and homes is known as the Night of Broken Glass, or -
According to the novel, where does Helmuth start working part-time?