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Who does Emilia call "The Knight" in this story?
August
The Shoe Poet
Adolf Hitler
Florian
Alfred’s hometown is
Heidelberg
L’vov
Königsburg
Berlin
What was Florian's apprenticeship in when he lived in Königsburg?
Map making
Art restoration
Farming
Navigation
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?
Operation Hannibal
Operation Hanover
Operation Sea Lion
Operation Gustloff
Where does Joana think her mother is during this story?
She has died.
She is in Lithuania.
She is in a refugee camp in Germany.
She is not sure.
Why does Eva choose not to get in line to get a ticket on the Gustloff?
She wants to wait until Joana is finished helping the doctor.
She wants to remain in East Prussia.
She has a bad feeling about that boat.
She wants to wait for her luggage that was left in the cart.
Where will the Gustloff be traveling to?
Holland
Kiel
Sassnitz
Denmark
Who was Wilhelm Gustloff?
He was the leader of the Nazi Party in Switzerland
He was a soldier killed in action in Stalingrad
He was the admiral of the Kriegsmarine.
He was the leader of the Nazi Party in Poland
What part of the ship do the girls from the naval auxiliary get assigned?
The swimming pool
The weight room
The Sundeck
The starboard lounge
Where does Alfred help Florian hide on the Gustloff?
In the maternity ward
In one of the ship's chimneys.
In his cabin
In one of the lavatories
What does Emilia finally decide to name her baby?
Eva
Joana
Halinka
Ingrid
What does the reader learn about Hannelore in Alfred's last imagined letter to her?
That Hannelore was Alfred's cousin
That Hannelore was Jewish
That Hannelore truly loved Alfred
That Hannelore never existed
Where are Joana and Florian living at the very end of the novel, in 1969?
In the United States
In Germany
In Denmark
In Lithuania
What does Eva discover when she goes upstairs in the Prussian house?
The family members of the house have been killed in their beds.
German soldiers deserting from the Front
A secret art treasure trove
A supply of blackberry jam
What does the Prussian term Junker refer to?
Trash collectors
Soldiers
Servants
Young gentlemen
From whom does Ingrid get her blue scarf?
Eva brings it to her from the second floor of the Prussian house.
The Shoe Poet
Joana
The inspection soldier in Frauenberg
Where does the group of refugees find shelter once they reach Gotenhafen?
A movie house
A former bank
A post office
A museum
What does Alfred's mother discover when she looks into his closet in Heidelberg?
He has hidden a wireless radio.
He has pinned a Nazi flag on the door of the closet.
He has pinned a collection of butterflies onto the door of the closet.
He has pinned pictures of Hannelore on the door of the closet.
Match the character with the phrase.
Florian
Guilt is a hunter.
Alfred
Fate is a hunter.
Emilia
Fear is a hunter.
Joana
Shame is a hunter.
Match the character's first name and last name.
Emilia
Vilkas
Joana
Beck
Alfred
Stozek
Florian
Frick
This character is unsure of where his/her family is at. The family consists of a mother, father, and brother.
Joana
Alfred
Emilia
Florian
This character's father was a math professor.
Emilia
Joana
Alfred
Florian
This character has a cousin named Lina. He/She feels responsible for Lina's death.
Florian
Joana
Emilia
Alfred
This character did not meet the physical requirements to serve his/her nation.
Florian
Alfred
Emilia
Joana
This character has a younger sister named Annie.
Joana
Florian
Emilia
Alfred
This character's mother died from tuberculosis.
Joana
Florian
Alfred
Emilia
This character's father was killed because he was helping a group against Hitler.
Emilia
Alfred
Florian
Joana
This character is 19 or 20 years old.
Florian
Alfred
Emilia
Joana
This character is 15 years old.
Florian
Emilia
Alfred
Joana
This character is 17 years old.
Joana
Florian
Emilia
Alfred
This character's mother died during childbirth.
Joana
Emilia
Alfred
Florian
This character's father was disappointed in him because he could not serve his country.
Alfred
The Shoe Poet
Florian
Hans
Match the character to the nationality.
Alfred
Lithuanian
Joana
Prussian
Florian
Polish
Emilia
German
This character has no identity papers.
Alfred
Florian
Emilia
Joana
This character is a cobbler by trade.
Eva
The Shoe Poet
Klaus
Erich Koch
This character's real name is Klaus.
The Shoe Poet
Dr. Lange
Dr. Richter
The Wandering Boy
This character's real name is Heinz.
The Wandering Boy
Dr. Lange
Dr. Richter
The Shoe Poet
Match the character with the description.
Dr. Richter
She's in her 50s. She is very blunt. She is huge.
Dr. Lange
He is very optimistic. He finds the Junker mansion that the group stays in.
Eva
He is very young. He was traveling with his grandmother before she died.
The Shoe Poet
She is blind. She was traveling with her aunt before they got separated.
Erich Koch
She is Jewish. She lived next door to Alfred.
Hannelore
He is the director of the museum in Konigsberg.
Halinka
He is the doctor on the ship.
The Wandering Boy
He is the leader of the regional branch of the Nazi Party in East Prussia.
Ingrid
She is Emilia's daughter.
This character has heightened senses.
Ingrid
Eva
Joana
Emilia
This character is an Olympic swimmer.
Klaus
Halinka
Joana
Hannelore
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."
Ingrid
Joana
Emilia
Eva
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.”
Alfred
Emilia
Florian
Joana
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.‘”
Florian
Alfred
Emilia
Joana
Identify the character this quote belongs to. “But, Eva, dear, your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession-your life.”
Joana
The Shoe Poet
Ingrid
The Wandering Boy
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?”
Florian
The Wandering Boy
Alfred
Dr. Richter
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.”
Dr. Richter
Ingrid
Emilia
Joana
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?”
Alfred
Joana
Florian
The Shoe Poet
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.”
Erich Koch
Florian
Dr. Lange
Alfred
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."
Emilia
Eva
Ingrid
Joana
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?"
Joana
Emilia
Eva
Ingrid
Identify the character this quote belongs to. "Bodies were strewn like human confetti. Would I still get my medal?"
Alfred
Florian
Heinz
Dr. Lange
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."
Joana
Ingrid
Emilia
Alfred
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!"
Alfred
Florian
Erich Koch
The Shoe Poet
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.”
Alfred
Klaus
Florian
Heinz
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."
Ingrid
Joana
Emilia
Eva
What does the "salt to the sea" reference in the title symbolize?
the lives lost at sea
the Baltic Sea
the preservation of memories
the tears of refugees
What secret does Florian carry with him throughout the journey?
He has stolen the Amber Room panel.
He is a Nazi spy.
He is a Soviet spy.
He is actually German royalty.
Match some of the conflicts in the story.
Character vs. Environment
Emilia shoots a German soldier.
Character vs. Character
The refugees hide Emilia's true identity and let her use the Latvian girl's papers.
Character vs. Self
Emilia dies on the raft.
Character vs. Society
Joana feels guilty about something in her past.
Which of the following foreshadows the fate of the Wilhelm Gustloff?
Alfred reveals that the women's auxiliary will be housed in the swimming pool area.
Eva reveals that all members of the Junker family are dead in their beds.
Florian reveals that he is going to forge his boarding pass.
Alfred reveals that the ship will be well over capacity and that ten of its lifeboats are missing.
What is the climax of the novel?
When it is revealed that Florian and Joana are married and living in the United States
When the Russian torpedoes hit the Wilhelm Gustloff and it begins to sink
When Alfred falls off the raft and plunges into the ocean
When Joana and Florian kiss
Florian says that his conscience mocks him. This is an example of ______________.
an allusion
alliteration
personification
a simile
Who is Frau Kleist?
Joana's mother
Alfred's mother
August's mother
Emilia's mother
Who is Clara Christensen?
Joana's supervisor from nursing school
Halinka's swimming coach
The Wandering Boy's mother
the woman who writes a letter to Florian
Where is Emilia buried?
in the sea
in her hometown in Poland
in Berlin, Germany
in a beautiful rose garden