The Boy in Striped Pajamas - 2

Where do you think all the mothers and grandmothers are?

• they have been removed and put to another sector of the camp

• they have been taken to factories to work for the Nazis

• they have been moved to the kitchens to cook for the other prisoners

• they have been given jobs in kindergartens to teach the children

Why is there so much barbed wire on very high fences?

• the camp kommandant has a barbed wire factory

• the fences are not high enough

• to stop people getting in to the camp

• extra security for desperate prisoners trying to escape

Why do you think Gretel is unable to speak?

• she has a very sore throat from a bad cold

• she sees that Auschwitz is very grey, colorless and very scary

• she is thinking about her new house

• she is fed up with Bruno because he is annoying

Which horrific misperception does Gretel have between Berlin and where they are now?

• that they must be at a holiday camp

• that Berlin is better than anywhere else

• that Auschwitz is only 30 minutes from the city

• that they will soon be going home

Which striking imagery is used by the author to display the German soldiers cruelty?

• that of children playing football and losing the game

• that of the blue skies above grey buildings

• that of the distressed children being laughed at by the soldiers

• that of the train arriving at Auschwitz late

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What are the clothes like that the people are wearing?

• grey pajamas with a grey hat

• grey pajamas

• grey striped pajamas

• grey striped pajamas with a grey striped cap

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The children's house was a fair distance away from the camp because

• they hadn't finished the normal quarters at the camp yet

• the Kommandant did not want to see, hear or smell what was going on in Auschwitz after his shift finished

• officers were never located near the other soldiers in nazi Germany

• the swimming pool could not fit into Auschwitz's water supply, and needed its own one

Bruno thought that they lived where they lived now because _________________________________________.

• the soldiers made him move.

• his mother had decided to move.

• Gretel needed to go to a new school.

• his dad had been punished

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Bruno's father sent Bruno _________________________________ for being disrespectful.

• to his room

• to see the soldiers

• to see his mother

• outside

What did Bruno ask his father before he went to his room?

• When are grandfather and grandmother going to visit us?

• Who are all the people in the huts that are all dressed the same that I can see from my window?

• Is Hitler coming to dinner to our new house?

• Can Karl, Daniel, and Martin come to visit us?

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