Salt to the Sea Final Test 2025

Who does Emilia call "The Knight" in this story?

Alfred’s hometown is

What was Florian's apprenticeship in when he lived in Königsburg?

What was the name of the massive water evacuation that the German high command had quickly organized to help move German refugees and soldiers from the path of the advancing Russian army?

Where does Joana think her mother is during this story?

Why does Eva choose not to get in line to get a ticket on the Gustloff?

Where will the Gustloff be traveling to?

Who was Wilhelm Gustloff?

What part of the ship do the girls from the naval auxiliary get assigned?

Where does Alfred help Florian hide on the Gustloff?

What does Emilia finally decide to name her baby?

What does the reader learn about Hannelore in Alfred's last imagined letter to her?

Where are Joana and Florian living at the very end of the novel, in 1969?

What does Eva discover when she goes upstairs in the Prussian house?

What does the Prussian term Junker refer to?

From whom does Ingrid get her blue scarf?

Where does the group of refugees find shelter once they reach Gotenhafen?

What does Alfred's mother discover when she looks into his closet in Heidelberg?

Match the character with the phrase.

Match the character's first name and last name.

This character is unsure of where his/her family is at. The family consists of a mother, father, and brother.

This character's father was a math professor.

This character has a cousin named Lina. He/She feels responsible for Lina's death.

This character did not meet the physical requirements to serve his/her nation.

This character has a younger sister named Annie.

This character's mother died from tuberculosis.

This character's father was killed because he was helping a group against Hitler.

This character is 19 or 20 years old.

This character is 15 years old.

This character is 17 years old.

This character's mother died during childbirth.

This character's father was disappointed in him because he could not serve his country.

Match the character to the nationality.

This character has no identity papers.

This character is a cobbler by trade.

This character's real name is Klaus.

This character's real name is Heinz.

Match the character with the description.

This character has heightened senses.

This character is an Olympic swimmer.

Identify the character this quote is referring to. "Reuniting with her mother was her

motivation. She would slay dragons to get to her. Mother was anchor.

Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was

suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean."

Identify the character this quote belongs to. “I became good at pretending. I became so good that after a while the lines blurred between my truth and fiction. And sometimes, when I did a really good job of pretending, I even fooled myself.”

Identify the character this quote belongs to. ″‘No, son,’ pleaded my father. ‘Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.‘”

Identify the character this quote belongs to. “But, Eva, dear, your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession-your life.”

Identify the character this quote belongs to. “What had human beings become? Did war make us evil or just activate an evil already lurking within us?”

Identify the character this quote belongs to. “I moved from body to body, treating blisters, wounds, frostbite. But I had no treatment for what plagued people most the most. Fear.”

Identify the character this quote belongs to. “All the running, the hiding, the lies, the killing, for what? The endless circle of revenge: answering pain by inflicting pain. Why did I do it?”

Identify the character this quote belongs to. “Fear is a hunter. But brave warriors, we brush away fear with a flick of the wrist. We laugh in the face of fear, kick it like a stone across the street.”

Identify the character this quote belongs to. “Don't feel sorry for me...I am able to see things. Just not the same things you see."

Identify the character this quote belongs to. "I knew the legends of the birds. Seagulls were the souls of dead soldiers. Owls were the souls of women. Doves were the recently departed souls of unmarried girls. Was there a bird for the souls of people like me?"

Identify the character this quote belongs to. "Bodies were strewn like human confetti. Would I still get my medal?"

Identify the character this quote belongs to.

"All the little duckies with their heads in the water

Heads in the water

All the little duckies with their heads in the water

Oh, such sweet little duckies."

Identify the character this quote belongs to.

"Communists, Czechoslovaks, Greeks, Gypsies, Handicapped, Homosexuals

Jews, Mentally ill, Negroes, Poles, Prostitutes, Russians, Serbs, Socialists

Spanish Republicans, Trade Unionists, Ukrainians and Yu-go-slavs!"

Identify the character this quote belongs to. “I spent fifty-five years with the love of my life. I lost her last July...Just when you think this war has taken everything you

loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to

give.”

Identify the character this quote belongs to. "I walked hundreds of kilometers with that cart. My silver and dishes are in that wagon. I'm sorry, but I'm not letting some peasant family make off with all of those valuables."

What does the "salt to the sea" reference in the title symbolize?

What secret does Florian carry with him throughout the journey?

Match some of the conflicts in the story.

Which of the following foreshadows the fate of the Wilhelm Gustloff?

What is the climax of the novel?

Florian says that his conscience mocks him. This is an example of ______________.

Who is Frau Kleist?

Who is Clara Christensen?

Where is Emilia buried?