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A word meaning something is about to happen.
What is impending?
100
A word meaning softly, tamely and subdued.
What is meekly?
100
An agreement
What is a pact?
100
A narrow tract of land forming a passageway.
What is a corridor?
100
Stiff-legged marching
What is goose-stepping?
200
A word meaning an empty space.
What is void?
200
A word meaning most serious.
What is gravest?
200
A word meaning past relatives.
What are ancestors?
200
To tie something down
What is lashing?
200
A cargo ship
What is a freighter?
300
People in town were blacking out their windows and quickly finishing these shelters because the Germans were coming.
What are air-raid shelters?
300
A word meaning someone in charge.
What is authority?
300
The children made swore on this (made a pledge) that they would never tell about their mission, even if they were captured.
What is The sword of Peter's ancestors.
300
Another word for package.
What is parcel?
300
To keep the others from being nervous and scared on their first "run", Peter did this.
What is made up stories to tell to the others?
400
There would be no school for the children for this one reason.
What is Mr. Anders, the schoolmaster, went to be with his army regiment?
400
The reason the Germans must see the children on their sleds, even when they were not yet transporting any gold.
What is they would become accustomed to the children sledding and think nothing of it when they were carrying the gold down to the Snake.
400
Per Garson was making crazy tracks in the snow outside the door to do this.
What is cover Uncle Victor's tracks so no one could follow them?
400
The children would go here after finishing their "run", to get a hot supper.
What is the Holmes farm?
400
The sled path was blocked with German soldiers. How did Peter led his group past them?
What is he let out a war whoop and went straight at them, hoping they would move?
500
Name one of the preparations for war going on in the homes of Riswyk .
What is guns were being cleaned, blackout curtains hung, pistols brought out and readied, and the air-raid shelters wer being finished?
500
Untie the ropes from around the gold bricks and unload them from the sled.
What are the two things the children needed to learn how to do before they could start taking the gold down to the Snake?
500
The gold was supposed to be hidden at his "camouflaged" landmark.
What is Thor's Rock?
500
The landmark that the children should look for when they get to the Snake; it's the place they will unload and bury the gold for Uncle Victor to find.
What is a pair of trees that are fallen and covered with snow about 200 feet apart?
500
Bury the gold and build a snowman over it.
What is the way that Uncle Victor will know where to find the gold bricks that the children bring to the Snake?