What are two illegal acts that Helmuth commits against Germany during Sections 4-6?
Question 8
8.
Explain why Helmuth believes the BBC rather than the RRG.
Question 9
9.
"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?
Question 10
10.
Question 11
11.
What does Mutti mean when she says, "Silence is how people get on sometimes" in
Section 4? How does Helmuth feel about what she says?
Question 12
12.
Explain why Gerhard moved into the spare bedroom at his grandparent's apartment.
Question 13
13.
Explain the purpose behind the Extraordinary Radio Law. What would happen to someone who broke this law?
Question 14
14.
Question 15
15.
Explain why Karl, Rudi, and Helmuth are stopped on their way home from choir
practice in Section 4. How does Helmuth feel about the whole scenario?
Question 16
16.
Question 17
17.
Question 18
18.
What does Helmuth find in the basement of his office building? What does he do
with what he finds?
Question 19
19.
Question 20
20.
How does Helmuth prove to Karl the Nazis have been lying to the German people?
Question 21
21.
What does Helmuth use to make the flyers look like official government notices?
Question 22
22.
Describe what happened to Brother Worbs at the concentration camp.
Question 23
23.
Explain how Helmuth acts on his anger toward the Nazis - he creates what?
Question 24
24.
At the beginning, who does Helmuth get to join him on his plan to distribute the
leaflets or fliers? What is their plan?
Question 25
25.
Finish the following quote from the story, in which Helmuth explains to Karl and
Rudi why people won't expect them to be the ones distributing the leaflets.
"We're all under eighteen," says Helmuth. "Even if we are caught, we won't be
tried as ____________."
Question 26
26.
Helmuth also recruits a co-worker to help him with his plan of distributing the
flyers. What is his name? Who does the co-worker know that might be able to help
them with their plan?
Question 27
27.
What happens at the end of Section 6?
Why does the author include the line "Helmuth buries himself in his work but
can't concentrate, not with Herr Mohn's eyes boring into his back" at the end of
Section 6?
A) To show that Herr Mohn likes Helmuth and thinks he's good at his job
B) To show that Herr Mohn is suspicious of what Helmuth was doing
C) To show that Helmuth isn't very good at his job and is going to get fired
D) To show that Helmuth should ask for Herr Mohn's help in spreading Nazi lies
Who gets arrested and taken to a concentration camp?
A) Helmuth
B) Gerhard
C) Brother Worbs
D) Benno Seligmann
Who gets arrested and taken to a concentration camp?
A) Helmuth
B) Gerhard
C) Brother Worbs
D) Benno Seligmann
Who gets arrested and taken to a concentration camp?
A) Helmuth
B) Gerhard
C) Brother Worbs
D) Benno Seligmann
Why does the author include the above event?
A) To show that speaking out against Nazis is dangerous
B) To persuade readers that the Nazis are horrible
C) To inspire Germans to speak out against the Nazis
D) To encourage more people to join the Nazis
Which quotation shows that the Nazis are lying to the German people?
A) "Helmuth hears how the advancing Germans capture or kill great numbers of
Russian soldiers."
B) "The BBC key him [Helmuth] up..."
C) "He locks the door and hears a different story: about German planes destroyed
by the Russians..."
D) "Some mornings, Oma comments on the dark circles under Helmuth's eyes."
What is the cause of the riots that occur all over Germany at the beginning of
Section 4?
A) The citizens of Germany are protesting the radio law that Hitler has
enforced.
B) The riots are in retribution for the Jew who killed the Nazi official in
Paris.
C) The riots are just another hateful crime that the Germans are carrying out
against the Jews; there is no purpose behind them besides hate.
D) The Jews started the riots to protest the atrocities that are being committed
against them.
What bombshell do Mutti and Hugo drop on Helmuth?
A) They are going to have another baby
B) They are going to be transferred to a new city because of Hugo's job
C) They are going to get married
D) They are breaking up
Gerhard brings what object back with him when he returns home on leave?
A) A banned Karl May novel
B) A shortwave radio
C) A letter signed by a Nazi official
D) A timeline that details the plans for the war
After Helmuth graduates, where does he get a job?
A) The administrative office of the Bundesrat
B) The Bundeskanzleramt, the German Chancellery
C) The executive board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
D) The Bieberhaus, the social welfare department at the City Hall
Germany declares war on what country, also known as a "powerhouse?"