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//The Hiding Place// Corrie Ten Boom, Sherrill


 * Comprehension**

CHAPTER 1 1. Who are the two authors of this novel? 2. This chapter is entitled “The One Hundredth Birthday Party.” Who or what is having a one hundredth birthday? 3. What is the setting of this story? Time, Place, Societal Issue. 4. Who is the first person narrator of this novel? _ 5. Identify each character by matching his/her name to his/her description. **Mr. Kan Tine Herr Gutlieber Peter Betsie Toos William Hans** _ a. watch shop’s apprentice _ b. watch shop’s saleslady/bookkeeper _ c. owner of rival watch shop _ d. Corrie ten Boom’s older sister _ e. Corrie’s nephew, a musical prodigy _ f. newly arrived from Germany; hoodlums burned his face/set fire to his beard _ g. Corrie’s older brother, a minister _ h. Corrie’s siter in law who’s married to Willem

CHAPTER 2 1. What does the word tante mean? 2. Name the three aunts who live with the Ten Boom family. 3. What did six year old Corrie decide she would NOT do in this chapter? 4. Other than to buy supplies for their clock/watch shop, why do Corrie and her father make the thirty minute trip to Amsterdam once a week? 5. What tragic incident in the neighborhood scares Corrie at the end of Chapter 2?

CHAPTERS 3-4 1. Who is the roommate of Willem’s on whom Corrie develops a crush? 2. What kind of school is Nollie attending? (For what profession is she preparing?) 3. For which World War is Tante Jans preparing the soldiers’ center? (What year is it?) 4. What dangerous color does the liquid in the glass beaker turn, indicating that Tante Jans is seriously ill? 5. From what disease is Tante Jans suffering? 6. What disturbing, unexpected news does Karel bring Corrie? 7. Mama is able to speak only _ (how many?) words after her coma. What are they? 8. Which of the Ten Boom sisters married Flip van Woerden? 9. Three years after her mother’s death, Corrie becomes the first licensed woman ? in Holland. 10. To what organization did the young German apprentice Otto proudly belong?

CHAPTERS 5-7 1. What message from Holland’s prime minister calmed the Dutch people? 2. Five hours after the prime minister’s announcement, what happened? 3. The radio brings more bad news. What important political figure has left Holland? 4. What “conscious lie” does Corrie tell the army clerk when she is questioned? 5. What happened to the Bulldog’s (Harry de Vries) dogs? Why? 6. What song does Peter play that gets him arrested? 7. When Willem cannot help Corrie steal ration cards because he is watched so closely, what advice does he give Corrie? 8. How many ration cards does Fred Koornstra provide? 9. What does “Mr. Smit” build inside the Ten Boom home? 10. How long was Peter jailed? 11. What is the razzia? 12. What happens to Christoffels, the old clockmaker? 13. How does Rolf van Vliet, the police officer with orange-red hair, help Cato and Harry? 14. What is the pastor’s answer when Corrie asks him to shelter the Jewish mother and her premature baby? 15. Who is Cornelia? 16. After the buzzer alarm system is installed, Mr. Smit informs the Ten Booms that the most common times for the Germans to conduct secret raids is _. 17. How many members of the Ten Boom household voted to let Mary stay despite her wheezing? 18. Other than listening to the radio, how does Betsie help “entertain” the people living in the Ten Boom home? 19. What sweet treat was the reward after a successful drill? 20. How was the electric generator in the Ten Boom home powered? How did they make the headlight glow?

CHAPTERS 8-9 1. Which Ten Boom sister is arrested first for hiding the Jew Annaliese? 2. What common interest did Corrie find to make a personal connection with the German doctor who worked at the prison? (What did they talk about?) 3. When the window washer peeked into the Ten Boom’s window and saw 17 people sitting around the lunch table, what quick thinking prevented any suspicion? What did they do to make it look “normal” to have seventeen people sitting around the table in the middle of the day? 4. What former employee who was fired for his political beliefs returns to the watch shop uninvited? 5. Who calls from the train station in Amsterdam after being released from prison after seven weeks? 6. When the police chief asks Corrie to help him “eliminate” an informer, what do Corrie and the police chief do instead? 7. What year was the family arrested? 8. From what disease was Corrie suffering when she was arrested? 9. What had Corrie packed and planned to take to prison that had to be left behind when she was arrested? 10. What was familiar to Corrie as the family was being loaded onto the prison bus? What was she seeing/feeling/experiencing that was very familiar to her, as if she had lived it before? (Déjà vu)

CHAPTERS 10-12 1. What is Scheveningen? 2. What three supplies does the kind nurse slip to Corrie when she was at the hospital/clinic? 3. What is kalte kost? 4. Which Ten Boom sister stays confined in the same prison as Corrie and is not released? 5. What happens to Caspen Ten Boom in prison? 6. Who is Rhames? 7. What is Corrie’s job at Vught? 8. How many women were crammed into each railroad car? 9. As Chapter 12 ends, Corrie and Betsie’s railroad car arrives in Emmerich, which is a border town in which country?

CHAPTERS 13-15 1. Corrie and Betsie arrive at the notorious women’s extermination camp named. 2. Why do Corrie and Betsie, along with the other women prisoners, cut their hair upon arrival at this camp? 3. In Barracks 28, Corrie and Betsie discover the building is infested with _?_! Why is Corrie appalled that Betsie is thanking God for these circumstances? 4. Corrie and Betsie never understood, at first, why there was so much freedom in the big room of Barracks 28. Neither the supervisor nor the guards would come in. Later the sisters discover that the reason there was so much freedom was _?_ 5. What nickname did Corrie and Betsie give the female guard who wore the shiny dress? (This is the same guard who beat the feeble minded girl and who later was kind to Betsie when she was too ill to stand in the sick call line.) 6. Describe the two visions Betsie had of a place where the sisters could minister after the war. 7. By what date did Betsie predict that she and Corrie would be out of prison? (Give the month, day, and year!) 8. What was unusual about Betsie’s facial features after her death? 9. What physical symptoms kept Corrie from being released immediately? 10. At the end of the book, Corrie hears of a place where she can minister/do her rehabilitation work. What kind of facility is available?

CONCLUSION__ 1. In all, how long was Corrie imprisoned? (Calculate from the day she was arrested until the day she was released from the concentration camp.) 2. When Corrie returned to her concentration camp many years later, what startling information did she discover about her release? 3. What liquid was in the bottle that Corrie kept in the concentration camp? 4. Why do you think the German people were willing to follow Hitler and his teaching? (How was Hitler able to convince the German people to go along with his plan to exterminate the Jewish people and other "undesirable" people?) 5. In looking back at this novel, what (or WHO) are the numerous hiding places? (Explain why the Sherrills chose THE HIDING PLACE as the title of this novel.) 6. In looking back at this novel, how did God protect Corrie and her family during the Holocaust? List as many as you can.