Vianne
Who does Vianne go to to ask for identity papers for the children?
Henri.
At the time that she meets her father in Paris (ch 32) how many times has she crossed the Pyrenees in one month?
Three times.
Why is Gaetan leaving Paul's group?
To join the guerilla partisans in the woods.
Who says, "I would tell you to be careful if these were ordinary times?"
Madame Babineau
How does the assault on Vianne prove the theme "The resiliency of the human spirit."
Von Richter beats her and questions her about Ari, threatens her with hurting Sophie, and then rapes Vianne making her keep her eyes open.
Explain how Vianne safeguards the children's chances of being reunited with their parents after the war.
She creates a fiche for each child and then on separate sheets of paper the identity and location.
What news does her father tell Isabelle he has heard from high-ranking SS?
The name Nightingale.
How does Vianne receive the identity papers for the children?
From Henri baked into a baguette.
Who says, "Or maybe I'm finally going home after years of running away. It's hard to know the truth sometimes."
The old woman headed to the Passeurs reunion in Paris.
Explain the sadness in this quote, "I am Isabelle Rossignol."
Isabelle says this silently in the cattle car as she is taken to the concentration camp because she wants someon to know who she was.
How many children has Vianne hidden since Beck died 18 months ago?
Thirteen.
When Isabelle arrives at the safehouse with the three new airman, what happens?
The SS arrives.
What is The Maquis?
The rural guerilla bands of French resistance fighters
Explain this quote, "She had revealed her weakness, and he had seen it. He knew how to hurt her now."
Vianne begs Von Richter not to hurt the children and he becomes aroused.
What do the women in the cattle cars do, "hoping against hope to be remembered."
Wrote their names on scraps of paper and cloth and stuck them in the cracks in the walls.
Describe how Von Richter threatens Vianne at headquarters.
He touches her, lears at her, threatens her children, threatens to hurt her and then says, "I hope you are lying to me."
Explain, "Two days. Only two days."
How long Juliette is supposed to last under interrogation.
What does each Maquis fighter carry in his pocket?
A cyanide pill so he dies before being taken captive.
Explain this quote, "Frozen. Dark. Humming. Small..."
After a horrific series of beatings, Isabelle has been tied into a freezer.
What are Isabelle's last thoughts before falling asleep?
Stay alive. Stay. Alive.
Who surprises Vianne in the alley, and what does he want?
Her father. To tell Vianne he loves her, to apologize, and to say goodbye.
Explan these thoughts. "He was trying to make it up to her, asking for forgiveness and seeking redemption all at once, sacrificing himself for her."
Isabelle's father comes to save her and tells the Nazis he is the Nightingale.
What are the Nazis doing with the Maquisards they capture?
Hanging them from streetlamps.
How does the quote, "You girls will be part of the generation that goes on, that remembers..." tie in with the old lady heading to Paris?
She has always talked about forgetting, running away, not wanting to remember the war and France.
Choose from two of the four themes: Courage, Love, The Power of Women, or Resiliency of the Human Spirit and give me an example for each from this section.
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