The Struggler's Journey
The Mayor's Mansion
Childhood Crimes
Candy & the Corner Shop
Vocabulary
100

Who is the "struggler" who travels from Stuttgart to Molching?

Max Vandenburg

100

What is the name of thr woman who invites Liesel into her library?

Ilsa Hermann

100

Who is the leader of the fruit-stealing gang Liesel and Rudy join?

Arthur Berg

100

What is the name of the shopkeeper who requires every customer to say "Heil Hitler"?

Frau Diller

100

word meaning to "to gently and patiently persuade"

coax

200

What is the item that Max carries to help him appear like a regular German citizen on the train?

the book Mein Kampf

200

What was Liesel doing at the Mayor's house the first time she was invited in to see the library?

Picking up the laundry

200

What does Rudy use two buckets of to cause Otto Sturm to crash his bicycle?

water

200

What is Liesel and Rudy's order at the corner shop?

Mixed candy

200

a synonym for "callous"

heartless, unfeeling, cold, insensitive, hard-hearted, cruel, ruthless

300

What item is Max given to use as a makeshift mirror in order to shave before making his journey?

a spoon

300

How does the mayor's wife believe her son died?

Frozen to death

300

What is the fatty ham found in Otto Sturm's basket after the crash called?

Speck

300

Because they only have one coin, Liesel and Rudy must share a single piece of mixed candy by trading how many "sucks" each?

10

300

word that is a synonym to "enrage, infuriate, madden, inflame, provoke"

incense

400

What is the address Max is walking toward in Molching?

33 Himmel St.

400

What is the name of the son the mayor’s wife lost in 1918?

Johann Hermann

400

What name does Rudy yell at the farmer with an ax to protect his identity while the gang escapes?

Jesse Owens

400

After finishing their candy, the children walk home with their mouths stained what color?

red

400

antonym for "succumb"

overcome, conquer, endure, survive

500

What specific page of Mein Kampfdoes Walter Kugler tell Max to look at "for luck"?

page 13

500

What street does the Mayor and his wife live on?

Grande Strasse

500

What city does Arthur Berg move to, where he was later seen holding his dying sister?

Cologne

500

The children eventually earn enough money for a full bag of mixed candy by selling what door-to-door?

chestnuts

500

What is the part of speech of "trepidation"?

noun

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