Number the Stars Chapters 1 - 2 Pages 1

Annemarie, Kirsti, and Ellen were _______ on the way home from school.
1. skipping
2. dancing
3. racing
4. walking
____________ stopped the girls.
1. The police
2. Soldiers
3. Their parents
4. The shopkeepers
Resistance means ___________.
1. Christian X's followers
2. Germans living in Denmark
3. Nazi soldiers
4. Danish people who tried to harm the Nazis
How had the war affected the people?
1. Children could no longer attend school.
2. People were not allowed to charge.
3. The people of Copenhagen could not get certain foods such as butter, coffee, and sugar
4. Everyone was happy.
Christian X's bodyguards were ______________.
1. all of Denmark
2. the Danish soldiers
3. the royal guards
What happened when the Norwegians tried to stop the Germans from invading their country?
1. Norway won.
2. Norway was crushed.
3. The Germans had to retreat.
4. The Germans could not fight against the mighty Norwegians.
The Germans had NOT invaded _____________.
1. Holland
2. Belgium
3. France
4. Sweden
What happened to Lise?
1. Lise married Peter.
2. Lise died in an accident.
3. Lise moved to Sweden.
4. Lise went to Christian X's palace to work.
Which sequence best describes the order of events in Chapter 1 "Why Are You Running?"?

1) Two German soldiers stop the girls.
2) The girls arrive home, quietly so a pair of soldiers on their corner will not notice them.
3) The soldiers let the girls go, warning them not to run any more.
4) The soldiers interrogate the girls.
5) Annemarie, Kirsti, and Ellen race home from school.
1. 5, 1, 4, 3, 2
2. 5, 1, 4, 2, 3
3. 1, 5, 3, 4, 2
4. 4, 5, 1, 2, 3
The conflict in this story is mostly the result of which event?
1. the real king of Denmark, Christian X is badly injured from a fall from his horse
2. rationing of foods such as butter and sugar
3. Lise's death
4. the German occupation
Which excerpt from Number the Stars best supports the believe that Peter was unhappy?
1. He no longer sang the nonsense songs that had once made Annemarie and Kirsti shriek with laughter.
2. Annemarie listened, and she knew what her mother was referring to. De Fri Danske-The Free Danes-was an illegal newspaper; Peter Neilsen brought it to them occasionally, carefully folded and hidden among ordinary books and papers, and Mama always burned it after she and Papa had read it.
3. Lise was a grownup girl of eighteen, then, about to be married to Peter Neilsen.
4. Redheaded Peter, her sister's fiancé, had not married anyone in the years since Lise's death.
Which question does Chapters 1-2 answer?
1. When will the Germans leave Denmark?
2. How does Peter get the illegal newspaper De Fri Danske-The Free Danes?
3. When will the Second World War end?
4. What do the people of Denmark think of their King Christian?

Number the Stars Chapters 1 - 2 Pages 1 - 17

Multiple-choice exercise