Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 1-13

1. Who is the narrator?

a. The Book Thief
b. Death
c. A dead Jewish Person
d. A dead Nazi

2. How does Death see the world?

a. Colors and then humans
b. Humans and then colors
c. Death and devastation
d. He tries not to see anything at all

3. Where does Death first see the Book Thief?

a. When she dies
b. When she arrives at the death camp
c. When her brother dies on the train
d. When she cheats death by getting better

4. Why does Death do his job?

a. He loves seeing people die
b. His father makes him do it
c. He hates it, but he has to make a living somehow
d. No one could ever take his place

5. What does Death have of the Book Thief’s?

a. Her soul
b. Her book
c. Her undivided interest and attention
d. Nothing

Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 17-29

1. According to Death, what does the color black symbolize?

a. Death
b. Innocence
c. Nazis
d. Blood

2. How did The Book Thief get her nickname?

a. Her father gave it to her because she loves to read
b. Her mother gave it to her because she loves to read
c. The librarian gave it to her after she stole a book
d. Death gave it to her after she stole a book

3. What does Liesel take away from her brother’s funeral?

a. The Grave Digger’s Handbook
b. The Bible
c. Some flowers off another person’s grave
d. A children’s fairytale book

4. Where is Liesel’s mother taking her?

a. To the concentration camp
b. Home
c. To her grandparents’ house
d. To a foster home

5. Who is finally able to get Liesel out of the car?

a. Rosa Hubermann
b. Hans Hubermann
c. Liesel’s mother
d. Liesel’s father
Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 30-35

1. What makes Liesel’s eyes dangerous?

a. They are a beautiful shade of blue
b. She is going blind
c. They are dark brown
d. They are green

2. Why were her father and the woman from the boarding house taken away?
a. They had brown hair and brown eyes
b. They stole books
c. Hitler needed them to work at the concentration camps
d. They were accused of being communists

3. What is the 1st thing Hans Hubermann teaches Liesel?

a. To curse
b. To roll cigarettes
c. To read
d. To play the accordion

4. What does Saumensch mean?

a. I love you
b. Go away
c. Shut up
d. Filthy pig

5. What does Rosa tell Liesel to call her and Hans?

a. Mama Number Two and Papa
b. Mama Number Two and Papa Number Two
c. Mama and Papa
d. Mama and Papa Number Two

Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 36-45

1. Where does Hans go in the evenings to make money?

a. To the opera to sing
b. To Frau Diller’s house to clean
c. To the rich people’s houses to do laundry
d. To the bar to play his accordion

2. Why is school painful for Liesel?

a. She is sent to kindergarten because she cannot read or write
b. She dislikes learning about Nazis
c. She would rather stay home and help Rosa with the laundry
d. She is no good at sports

3. What does Frau Holtzapfel do every time she passes the Hubermanns’ door?
a. Rings the bell and runs
b. Knocks really loudly until she wakes every one up
c. Spits on the door
d. Yells, “Filthy pigs!”

4. Where does Liesel have to go every Wednesday and Saturday from 3pm-5pm?
a. Sylvan tutoring to teach her how to read and write
b. With mama to collect the laundry
c. With papa to help him collect money for playing the piano
d. To Nazi indoctrination classes (BDM)

5. What is strange about the Hubermanns’ sleeping arrangements?

a. Liesel sleeps in the living room and they have a huge master bedroom
b. They sleep in the living room and Liesel has a room of her own
c. Liesel sleeps in the basement and they sleep in the living room
d. They sleep in the basement and Liesel sleeps in the living room
Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 46-55

1. What do customers have to do in order to be served by Frau Diller?

a. Kiss her left cheek
b. Recite the pledge to the flag
c. Heil Hitler
d. Call her a filthy pig

2. Who is Liesel’s closest friend?

a. Jesse Owens
b. Rudy Steiner
c. Tommy Muller
d. Frau Diller

3. What is the Jesse Owen incident?

a. When Liesel beat Rudy in a race
b. When Rudy got Jesse Owen’s autograph
c. When Rudy covered his body in charcoal and ran onto the soccer field during a game
d. When Liesel covered her body in charcoal and ran onto the soccer field during a game

4. What game do the kids play and what is Liesel’s position?

a. Soccer; goalie
b. Soccer; forward
c. Basketball; point guard
d. Basketball; referee

5. What is the bet and wager between Rudy and Liesel at the end of this chapter?
a. Who can score the most goals; a kiss and Liesel gets a new position
b. Who can finish their homework the fastest; slave for a week
c. Who can say the most curse words; slave for a day
d. Who can run the fastest; a kiss and Liesel gets a new position

Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 56-61

1. Where is Liesel during the Jesse Owens incident?

a. In the stands cheering him on
b. At home helping Mama 2 with the laundry
c. Learning to read with Papa
d. With her real parents

2. How is Alex Steiner characterized?

a. A Jew who is trying to hide from the Nazis so he can raise his family
b. A law abiding German who is conflicted about being a Nazi
c. A Jew hating Nazi authority
d. A Nazi hating Jewish people

3. Who is Mr. Kaufmann?

a. A Jewish shoemaker
b. A Nazi officer
c. Mr. Steiner’s boss
d. Rudy’s favorite teacher

4. Why is Rudy’s idolization of Jesse Owens dangerous?

a. Jesse Owens is a Jew and Rudy is Catholic
b. The Steiner family hates all Americans
c. Hitler and the Nazis do not like Black people
d. Jesse Owens is a Nazi

5. How does Rudy feel after his talk with his father?
a. He fully realizes why he cannot like Jesse Owens
b. He wants to run away from home
c. He knows he has to do better in school so his father will like him more
d. He is still confused
Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 62-68

1. How did Papa get Liesel’s book?

a. She gave it to him
b. He found it while changing her sheets
c. Mama found it and gave it to him
d. Her brother found it and gave it to him

2. How does Papa react when Liesel wets the bed?

a. He shames her because she is too old to be doing that
b. He tells Mama and Mama punishes her
c. He encourages her to start wearing diapers to bed
d. He washes the sheets and doesn’t mention it again

3. How do their midnight meetings change?

a. Papa sleeps in the chair in her room
b. Papa plays the accordion so she can fall back asleep
c. Papa teaches Liesel to read
d. Mama puts an end to their midnight meetings

4. What do they do with the sandpaper?

a. Write the alphabet on different pieces
b. Write Liesel’s life story
c. Sand the walls before they paint the basement
d. Sand the spit off the front door

5. How does Papa respond when Liesel wants to learn to read and he wants to go to bed?
a. Alright, just a few more words
b. Shut up and go to sleep
c. Go to sleep and I’ll play you the accordion when you wake up
d. He shuts off the light and goes to bed

Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 69-72

1. When they run out of sandpaper, how do Liesel and Papa write their words?
a. In chalk on the sidewalk
b. With pen in her notebook
c. On the computer
d. With paint on the basement walls

2. According to Liesel, what is the smell of friendship?

a. Urine in the middle of the night
b. Fresh laundry hanging in the sun
c. Cigarettes and kerosene
d. The pages of old books

3. Why can’t they read in the kitchen?

a. Rosa is cooking
b. Rosa won’t shut up
c. The kitchen doesn’t have a table
d. The kitchen is too cold

4. Where else does Papa take Liesel to read and listen to the accordion?
a. The Amper River
b. The bar
c. Frau Diller’s store
d. School

5. How do they convince Mama to let them leave the house to practice reading?
a. They curse at her
b. They just keeping asking until she says yes
c. They take her laundry and deliver it for her
d. They don’t ask, they just leave
Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 73-80

1. Why is Liesel moved up to the class with kids her own age?
a. She has finally learned to read
b. She did all the work she had to do in order to be promoted
c. She caused distractions for the littler children
d. Her foster parents had a meeting with her counselor and principal

2. Who points out that Liesel has not had her turn to read in front of the class?
a. Sister Mary
b. Rudy
c. Liesel
d. Ludwig

3. What happens when kids act foolishly in Sister Maria’s class?

a. The teacher calls their parents
b. They get beat out in the hall
c. They are sent to the principal’s office
d. They are sent to a lower grade until they learn to act properly

4. Why did Liesel beat up Ludwig?

a. He teased her multiple times on the playground for not being able to read
b. He told Sister Maria that she had not read in front of the class
c. He smiled at her
d. He teased her about liking Rudy

5. Why did Liesel break down at the end of the chapter?

a. She is embarrassed that she can’t read
b. She misses her brother
c. She got beat by the teacher
d. All of the above

Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 83-90

1. According to Death, what makes the Nazi party succeed in Germany?

a. They kill anyone who opposes them
b. They burn things
c. They hate the Jews
d. They have a lot of followers

2. How did Papa pay for Liesel’s Christmas present?

a. Playing his accordion
b. Doing extra laundry
c. Begging on the streets
d. Trading cigarettes

3. What is Liesel’s Christmas present?

a. A new dress
b. 2 books
c. New shoes
d. A new hat and mittens

4. How does Mama react to Liesel’s Christmas gift?

a. She is proud that Liesel can read
b. She is mad Papa wasted his $ on that when he could have gotten her something more practical
c. Mama is upset because she wanted the things that Papa gave to Liesel
d. She is happy that he helped her with the laundry

5. How does Papa make it up to mama?

a. He buys her eggs
b. He buys her new shoes
c. He buys her a dress
d. He helps her with the laundry
Quiz: The Book Thief pgs 91-100

1. What bad news does Vogel give Rosa?

a. The Nazi’s are coming to take him away
b. He can no longer afford for her to do his laundry
c. Liesel still cannot read
d. Liesel got in trouble for fighting in school

2. What new job does Liesel get?

a. Working in Frau Diller’s shop
b. Cleaning the chalk boards at school
c. Shelving books at the public library
d. Collecting and delivering Rosa’s laundry by herself

3. What new request does Liesel make of Papa?

a. Let her get a real job
b. Teach her to read a new book
c. Let her write a letter to her real mama
d. Let her write a letter to her real papa

4. What happened when Liesel stole some of the laundry money?

a. Mama beats her with a wooden spoon
b. Papa stops teaching her to read
c. She is grounded for a month
d. She must get a job to repay mama

5. What realization does Liesel come to on the kitchen floor?

a. Her foster mama hates her
b. She wants to run away from her foster home
c. She will never hear back from her real mama
d. She wants to marry Rudy Steiner
Answer Key:

1-13: b, a, c, d, b

7-29: c, d, a, d, b

30-35: c, d, b, d, a

36-45: d, a, c, b, b

46-55: c, b, c, a, d

56-61: d, b, a, c, d

62-68: b, d, c, a, c

69-72: d, c, b, a, c

73-80: c, b, b, a, d

83-90: b, d, b, b, a

91-100: b, d, c, a, c