CHARACTERS
QUOTES
EVENTS
HISTORICAL INFO.
SYMBOLISM
100
This is the neighbor who asks way too many questions and turns Gerta and Fritz in to the Stasi for suspicious activity.
Who is Frau Eberhart?
100
This is the slogan of the Pioneer meetings.
What is "Be ready - always ready"?
100
This is why Gerta's family did not all move to the West together.
What is Mama didn't want to go?
100
This is the type of government in East Berlin.
What is communist?
100
This is the message Papa dancing "The Farmer in March" sent to Gerta.
What is that Gerta & Fritz should dig a tunnel?
200
This is the protagonist of the story who is unhappy with life in East Germany where individualism is frown on.
Who is Gerta?
200
This item is the "monument to freedom."
What is the shovel?
200
This is what Fritz bought Gerta on the Black Market for her birthday that meant so much to her.
What is a banana?
200
This is what the people called the night the fence went up in East Berlin.
What is Barbed Wire Sunday?
200
This is what the shovel in garden patch signals to Muller.
What is the signal that it is the night Gerta and Fritz are leaving?
300
This is the Stasi officer who dies while trying to escape.
Who is Muller?
300
"Nobody could succeed here, but most people seemed okay with that. It meant they couldn't fail either." This quote lets readers know this about people in East Berlin.
What is content with their mediocre (average) lives?
300
This is what Gerta stole in the night to help with the tunnel.
What is a pulley?
300
This is the name of the area between the Berlin wall and West Berlin.
What is the Death Strip?
300
This is what is ironic about where Gerta got the strength to dig the tunnel.
What is that Gerta got the strength from her training under the communist regime?
400
This is Gerta and Fritz's brother who went with Papa to West Germany and became trapped because of the Berlin wall.
Who is Dominic?
400
"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -John F. Kennedy This quote demonstrates this about the East German government's feeling towards its people.
What is the East German government fears its people will rebel against them?
400
This is why Fritz & Gerta must be careful what they say in their apartment.
What is the apartment is bugged by the Stasi?
400
This is the controlling government for East Germany.
Who is Russia?
400
The novel's title, A Night Divided, represents this.
What is Gerta's divided family?
500
These characters knew Peter was trying to escape to the West.
Who are Gerta & Fritz?
500
"Nobody has everything here, but at least everyone has something. Why can't that be enough for you?" When Anna says this to Gerta, this is why she's angry.
What is Anna thinks Gerta is ungrateful for the little she has?
500
This is Fritz & Anna's excuse for being near the Welcome building.
What is gardening or building a garden?
500
This is the war that was going on during A Night Divided.
What is the Cold War?
500
The division in Anna & Gerta's friendship represents this.
What is the division between East & West Germany?
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