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Introduction/Afterword
The Race to the Corner
Random Facts
100
The kind of cupcake that Kirsti wants

What is a big yellow cupcake with pink frosting?

100

The age of Lise when she died

What is 18?

100

The approximate age of most of the book's readers

What is 10?

100

Annemarie wants to race Ellen to the corner because she's practicing for 

What is the athletic meet on Friday?

100
Two two cities that were recently bombed, as described in De Frie Danske

What are Hillerod and Norrebro?

200

Kirst thinks the Hirches are gone because

What is they went on a vacation to the seashore?

200

The age of Kirsti when the story begins

What is 5?

200

When the book was newly published, it found its way into the hands and hearts of children who had read about, but never experienced _____.

What is war?

200
Annemarie wants to practice because she was this place in last week's race

What is second place?

200

Annemarie's favorite fairy tale

What is the Little Mermaid?

300

Peter's nickname for Annemarie

What is Longlegs?

300

The floor of the apartment building that Annemarie lives on

What is 3rd floor?

300

This person warns the Jews that they were to be taken and relocated by the Germans

Who is the rabbi?

300

Annemarie outdistanced her friend quickly even though...

What is one of her shoes came untied?

300

This character always considered questions very carefully before answering them

Who is Papa?

400

Mama's favorite book

What is Gone with the Wind?

400

Lise died in an accident _____ before her wedding

What is two weeks?

400

This story is recorded in one of the documents that still remain from that time

What is the soldier who asked the Danish teenager, "who is that man?" in reference to King Christian?

400

Annemarie ran past these two people on her way to the corner

Who are an elderly lady in black and a young woman pushing a baby carriage?

400

King Christian was badly injured from

What is a fall from his horse?

500

Kirsti's new fish shoes are originally this color

What is green?

500
The number of seashells and the number of bottles of beer that Peter brings

What is two and two?

500

The Danish Resistance was composed mainly of...

What is the very young and the very brave?

500

Annemarie had heard this word often, but it had never before been directed at her

What is halte?

500

These three items are part of Lise's trunk

What are pillowcases, her wedding dress, and the yellow dress she wore at her engagement party?