Who's Who?
This girl narrates the story and tries to understand Papa's secret messages.
Who is Gerta?
Gerta's home is in the eastern part of this divided German city.
What is Berlin?
Gerta thinks this parent was a prisoner even before the fence went up.
Who is Mama?
Gerta suspects library shelves are empty because these make people think.
What are books?
When missing her family becomes too painful, Gerta says this is sometimes the only emotion she understands.
What is anger?
Complete Fritz's written warning: "The apartment is..."
What is bugged?
This brother remains in East Berlin with Gerta and Mama and secretly enjoys Western music.
Who is Fritz?
This many years pass between the border closing and Gerta seeing Dominic across the wall.
What is four years?
Before this boy's escape, Gerta prays for his safety and for the family he will leave behind.
Who is Peter?
Gerta buries this leftover from a birthday treat, hoping it will grow into a tree in spring.
What is a banana peel?
The standoff of threats and puffed-out chests between East and West is this conflict.
What is the Cold War?
Complete Fritz's warning: "We'll be more careful. We must sound..."
What is happy?
This brother travels west with Papa before the border closes.
Who is Dominic?
Although leaders claim the wall protects people, the guards face this direction toward the people they are keeping inside.
What is east, toward East Berlin? The guards' position shows that the wall prevents people from leaving.
This grieving friend marches home as though the devil is chasing her.
Who is Anna?
The dirt in this guarded area is kept smooth so escape attempts leave easy-to-follow footprints.
What is the Death Strip?
This two-word nickname describes the color of East Berlin's buildings, markets, streets, and wall.
What is Communist Gray?
These secret police wear greenish-gray uniforms and hats with a square-and-compass emblem.
Who are the Stasi?
This friend pulls away from Gerta after her brother Peter's death, but later passes her a drawing.
Who is Anna?
Fritz's forbidden Beatles records represent this freedom that the government restricts.
What is freedom of expression? The songs allow ideas and choices the government tries to control.
Watching the people at the wall, this girl realizes she is the only person who can change her situation.
Who is Gerta?
The Stasi show Fritz this record with his name on it, marking him as a potential enemy of the state.
What is his Stasi file?
Feeling that she might "infect" new friends, Gerta compares herself to this.
What is a disease?
Papa and Dominic stand on this raised structure in West Berlin to see Gerta over the wall.
What is a platform?
This neighbor warns Papa that leaving the East may soon become impossible. Later, the Stasi arrest him over his political message.
Who is Herr Krause?
The Stasi's hidden listening devices turn even this usually private place into somewhere the family must watch its words.
What is the family's apartment? Fritz warns Gerta in writing and tells her to keep acting normally.
Gerta describes this nosy neighbor as the human version of a turkey, minus the feathers.
Who is Frau Eberhart?
The good food kept under the counter for customers with something to trade is called this.
What are Benders?
When Gerta says they are "in chains," she means that they lack this.
What is freedom?
A letter from Anna's relatives in West Berlin contains this picture marked with Gerta's first name.
What is a drawing of an old brick building?