Setting
The city where our story takes place.
What is Copenhagen?
The theme of our story.
What is bravery and friendship?
Our main characters in the story.
What is Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen?
“The Giraffe” the nickname Annemarie had for one of the soldiers on the street is an example of what figure of speech?
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
What is a metaphor?
“She reached down for Kirsti’s hand, but Kirsti, always stubborn, refused it and put her hands on her hips _______.”
a.meanly
b. defiantly
c. hurtfully
What is defiantly?
The point of view our book is written in.
What is third person?
Who is Peter?
What is the boy their sister was supposed to marry.
“It was still raining the next morning when Mama told me. Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the world was crying.” This is an example of what?
a. personification
b. symbolism
c. metaphor
What is personification?
Choose a word that was used in the book to describe Kirsti:
a. small
b. kind
c. obstinate
What is obstinate?
The country the girls could see from across the sea.
What is Sweden?
Ten year old Annemarie Johansen finds herself having to learn to be brave and courageous in order to save the life of her best friend Ellen and her parents. This is an example of the ______ of Number the Stars.
a.theme
b.narrator
c.plot
What is the plot?
Who was called ‘the Giraffe’?
What is the tall soldier on the street corner?
“And her parents loved Peter too. They said he was like a son.” This is an example of what figure of speech?
a. metaphor
b. simile
c. alliteration
What is simile?
Restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity…. There was a _____ on coffee during WWII.
a. limit
b. ration
c. run
What is ration?
Annemarie taking Ellen's necklace with the Star of David on it, and hiding it from the soldiers is an example of:
a. personification
b. plot
c. symbolism
What is symbolism?
The Star of David is a symbol of the Jewish religion. Annemarie's decision to hide it is a symbol for how Ellen had to hide the fact that she was a Jew from the soldiers.
Name at least two secondary characters in the story?
What is Kirsti, Peter, Mother, Father, Uncle Henrik. Mr. and Mrs. Rosen
Kirsti naming her kitten ‘Thor’, for the god of Thunder’ is an example of what figure of speech?
a. allusion
b. simile
c. metaphor
What is an allusion (when an author uses something familiar or historical in their story to make a connection with the readers)
The ______ girl thought she was better than everyone else.
a. haughty
b. obstinate
c. defiant
What is haughty?
"A bird's nest, wispy with straw, was half hidden in the corner where the roof met the wall above a bedroom window."
This is a description of which setting in our book.
What is Uncle Henrik's farmhouse?
When the problem or conflict begins for Annemarie and her family in the story.
a. When they decide to lie to the soldiers and say that Ellen is their daughter.
b. When Denmark fell to the Nazis
c. When Lise died
a. What is when they decide to lie to the soldiers and say that Ellen is their daughter?
How did Annemarie’s older sister die?
What is she was hit by a car on a rainy night?
“Thank goodness Kirsti slept through almost everything. If they had wakened her, she would be wailing-or worse she would be angry, and her fists would fly.” The yellow part is an example of what figure of speech?
a. simile b. theme c. idiom
What is an idiom?
The Nazis sought out ways to ______ the Jews.
a. relocate
b. torment
c. reassure
What is torment?