Number the Stars

Multiple Choice and Long Answer questions create ideal opportunities for whole-text review, unit exam, or summative assessments.

Multiple Choice

1. What is Peter’s final request?

A) To be buried next to Lise

B) To be spared from the firing squad

C) To have a final meal with the Johansens

D) To have a private execution

2. What role do fairy tales and storytelling play in the novel?

A) They distract from the main narrative.

B) They provide a way for characters to escape their reality.

C) They add humor to the story.

D) They highlight the differences between the Danes and the Germans.

3. Which best describes Annemarie’s relationship with Ellen?

A) Though drastically different people, they learn to find ways to build a life-saving friendship.

B) Strangers thrown together through war, they become fast friends and help each other survive.

C) Their established friendship empowers them to find a source of remarkable courage during a crisis.

D) Despite growing up on opposing sides of a bloody conflict, they find friendship and peace.

4. What does the title Number the Stars signify?

A) The countless soldiers lost in the war

B) The Jewish people saved from the Holocaust

C) The different nations involved in World War II

D) The individual stories of each character in the book

5. How does the character of Kirsti defy the expectations of the reader and the other characters?

A) Kirsti is the most fearful character in the novel.