The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Part 2)

Question 1

What does Liesel vow to never drink again after having some when Hans is paid with it instead of money?

Answer 1

Champagne

Question 2

Where does Frau Hermann leave a note for Liesel?

Answer 2

A dictionary

Question 3

During Molching’s first air raid, what does Max do?

Answer 3

Looks out the windows

Question 4

What does Liesel do during the second air raid to calm herself and others?

Answer 4

Reads

Question 5

After Hans tries to help a Jewish man and is whipped for it, what does he decide about Max?

Answer 5

Max isn’t safe anymore

Question 6

After making him strip at school, where do the Nazi soldiers want to take Rudy?

Answer 6

Nazi training school

Question 7

What does Alex do to prevent Rudy from being taken by the Nazis?

Answer 7

Volunteers in Rudy’s place

Question 8

When Hans is drafted, what unit is Hans placed in?

Answer 8

Air Raid Special Unit

Question 9

What do Rudy and Liesel scatter on the street for Jewish prisoners to find?

Answer 9

Bread

Question 10

In Max’s story, The Word Shaker, where do words come from?

Answer 10

They grow on trees

Question 11

Which of Frau Holtzapfel’s sons dies in Stalingrad?

Answer 11

Robert

Question 12

Who dies when he insists that Hans switch places with him on the army truck?

Answer 12

Reinhold Zucker

Question 13

Who is the second person that Death takes with Liesel nearby?

Answer 13

The pilot

Question 14

What does Rudy give the dying pilot?

Answer 14

A teddy bear

Question 15

What does Frau Holtzapfel’s son, Michael, do when she will not go to the air raid shelter?

Answer 15

Leaves her

Question 16

Which character does Death not include when he describes the souls on Himmel Street that he will collect?

Answer 16

Liesel

Question 17

Which character kills himself?

Answer 17

Michael

Question 18

Who gives Liesel a blank book, so she can write her own story?

Answer 18

Frau Hermann

Question 19

What is Liesel doing when a bomb strikes Holching, killing many of its citizens?

Answer 19

Writing

Question 20

Where did Liesel pass?

Answer 20

Sydney, Australia

Question 21

After the bombing that kills Hans and Rosa, who takes Liesel home with them?

Answer 21

The Hermanns

Question 22

In 1945, who makes his way to Alex Steiner’s shop and is reunited with Liesel?

Answer 22

Max

Question 23

After keeping the ashes from the bombing on her skin throughout the victims’ funerals, how does Liesel finally bathe?

Answer 23

In the river

Question 24

In his final words, Death says he is haunted by what?

Answer 24

Humans

Question 25

Where was Markus Zusak born?

Answer 25

Australia

Question 26

Who told Zusak the story that inspired The Book Thief?

Answer 26

His mother

Question 27

Which group of people in Nazi Germany did Zusak want to showcase in his novel?

Answer 27

The people who resisted

Question 28

What was Zusak’s father’s job, which Zusak originally thought he would also do someday?

Answer 28

Painter

Question 29

Which character did Zusak realize had to be rewritten as a more frightened and sympathetic character?

Answer 29

Death

Question 30

Who introduces themselves as the narrator of the novel?

Answer 30

Death

Question 31

What is the name of the town where Liesel goes to live with her new foster parents?

Answer 31

Molching

Question 32

When Max arrives at Hans and Rosa’s house, what do they do with him?

Answer 32

Hide him

Question 33

What do the Nazi soldiers do when Hans gives a piece of bread to a Jewish prisoner?

Answer 33

Whip him

Question 34

Why is Hans sent home from the war?

Answer 34

He's injured

Question 35

Who is the first adult in the story to win Liesel’s trust?

Answer 35

Hans

Question 36

How does Rosa Hubermann initially come across in the story?

Answer 36

Cold and impatient

Question 37

At the start of the story, why is Ilsa Hermann so unhappy?

Answer 37

Her son passed

Question 38

How does Frau Diller embody the Hitler ideal of a “good” German?

Answer 38

She blindly follows orders

Question 39

How does Liesel initially act when she arrives at the Hubermann’s home?

Answer 39

Defensive

Question 40

What characteristic defines Max’s character to a great degree?

Answer 40

His fighting spirit

Question 41

When Viktor tosses Liesel’s book into the river, what does Rudy do?

Answer 41

Jumps to retrieve it

Question 42

What causes Rudy to change from youthful and innocent to angry and withdrawn?

Answer 42

His father is drafted

Question 43

In Max’s final story for Liesel, what does Hitler use to take over the world?

Answer 43

Words

Question 44

What is the first book Liesel steals?

Answer 44

The Grave Digger’s Handbook

Question 45

When was The Book Thief first published?

Answer 45

2006

Question 46

What are all the books Liesel Meminger steals in her lifetime?

Answer 46

-The Grave Digger's Handbook -The Shoulder Shrug -Mein Kampf -The Standover Man -The Whistler -The Dream Carrier -The Complete Duden Dictionary and Thesaures -The Word Shaker -The Last Human Stranger -The Book Thief

Question 47

When does Death first meet Liesel Meminger?

Answer 47

On a train when her brother passes

Question 48

When does Death's second meeting with Liesel occur?

Answer 48

When bombs fall on the street where she lives

Question 49

Where is Liesel and her family heading to at the beginning of the book?

Answer 49

Munich

Question 50

How old is Liesel in the beginning of the novel?

Answer 50

9 years old

Question 51

What is the BDM?

Answer 51

Band of German Girls

Question 52

Who spits on the Hubermann's door every time she passes?

Answer 52

Frau Holtzapfel

Question 53

What two tasks does Liesel help Rosa out with at the beginning?

Answer 53

-Collect and deliver laundry -Clean the door every afternoon because of the spit

Question 54

Why did Alex Steiner disapprove of Rudy going out and imitating Jesse Owens?

Answer 54

Because he is a man that the Fuhrer and his followers would not approve of

Question 55

Why was Liesel placed in the younger classes initially?

Answer 55

Because of her inability to read well

Question 56

Why is Liesel moved up from the younger classes?

Answer 56

She has become somewhat of a bully toward the younger students