Number the Stars Chapters 3 - 4 Pages 18 - 38

1. What time of year was it?
a) Spring
b) Summer
c) Fall
d) Winter

2. Mama sent Annemarie and Kirsti on an errand to ___________.
a) buy a button
b) deliver the newspaper
c) take coffee to Mrs. Rosen
d) buy milk

3. How did Mama react to the news that the Hirsch's button shop was closed?
a) excited
b) happy
c) sad
d) worried

4. What curfew did the people of Copenhagen have?

a) 8:00
b) midnight
c) 10:00
d) 5:00

5. What present did Peter bring Annemarie?

a) cola
b) chocolate
c) a seashell
d) buttons

6. Why did the Nazis make the Hirsches close their shop?
a) The Hirsches owed the Nazis money.
b) The Hirsches were Jewish.
c) The Hirsches were in the Resistance.
d) The Hirsches were Germans.

7. What concern did Annemarie have after learning the Germans were closing shops that belonged to the Jews?


a) Her friend Ellen was Jewish.
b) Her family would not be able to buy food.
c) The Jews would move into their home.

8. What was Mama's favorite book?

a) Romeo and Juliet
b) Gone with the Wind
c) Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales
d) Little Women

9. Why did Kirsten NOT want to wear the new shoes?
a) The new shoes were red.
b) The new shoes were too little.
c) The new shoes were made of stiff brown leather.
d) The new shoes were made of fish skin.

10. What did the girls like to play?

a) jacks
b) ball
c) paper dolls
d) jump rope

11. The Danes _______________ when the Germans were approaching their naval fleet.
a) blew up their own ships
b) fought the Germans
c) ran away

12. Why did Ellen come to stay with the Johansens?

a) The Nazis had taken the synagogue lists of all the Jews.
b) The Hirsches were sick.
c) Ellen's parents were going on a vacation to the coast.

13. How did Ellen's parents escape the Nazis?

a) Ellen's parents hid in the attic.
b) Peter took them to hide.
c) Ellen's parents left during the night in a wagon.
d) Ellen's parents pretended to be the Neilsens.

14. Which statement from Number the Stars is an opinion?
a) Alone in the apartment while Mama was out shopping with Kirsti, Annemarie and Ellen were sprawled on the living room floor playing with paper dolls.
b) Mama opened the package and took out a pair of little girl's shoes.
c) I woke up in the night and I could hear the booms.
d) You are together so much, it will be easy for you to pretend that you are sisters.

15. Which word would be the best antonym for disdainfully?

She took her new shoes, holding them disdainfully, and put them on a chair.
a) scornfully
b) proudly
c) sneeringly
d) mockingly



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1. (c)
2. (a)
3. (d)
4. (a)
5. (c)
6. (b)
7. (a)
8. (b)
9. (d)
10. (c)
11. (a)
12. (a)
13. (b)
14. (d)
15. (b)