The Hiding Place
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50 free The Hiding Place trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Hiding Place is Corrie ten Boom's account of how a middle-aged watchmaker, her elderly father and her sister turned a narrow Dutch house into a refuge for Jews during the German occupation. It has been read in churches, classrooms and book groups for more than half a century, because it is both a wartime rescue story and a book about how faith holds up under the worst conditions. This quiz follows the book from the party that opens it to the camps where it ends: the family and their neighbours, the underground contacts, the drills for the secret room, the raid, the months in prison and Corrie's return home. A last group of questions covers the people behind the book, the 1975 film and what became of the ten Boom house. It is written for students reading the book for class, for church and homeschool reading groups, and for anyone who wants to see how much of the story has stayed with them. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so it works as a reading check, a discussion starter or a printable review.
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Q 01In The Hiding Place, which pests kept guards out of Barracks 28, letting the sisters hold Bible readings?
Fleas
Fleas swarmed the bunks so thickly that the guards refused to step inside. Betsie had insisted on thanking God for them weeks before either sister knew why the room went unsupervised.
Q 02Corrie ten Boom's release from Ravensbrück, days after her sister Betsie died there, was later blamed on what?
A clerical error
A clerical error set her free, she was told afterwards. A week after she walked out, the women of her age group in the camp were sent to the gas chambers.
Q 03Corrie ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place, died in 1983 at the age of 91 on which day?
Her own birthday
Her own birthday, 15 April, was also the day she died in 1983. A stroke five years earlier had taken away the speech that carried her story to more than 60 countries.
Q 04In The Hiding Place, the ten Booms hide Jews half a block from the police station in which Dutch city?
Haarlem
Haarlem had known the family shop since 1837. The house stood on the main shopping street, so close to police headquarters that every new arrival was a risk.
Q 05In The Hiding Place, what does Fred Koornstra supply to Corrie each month after faking a robbery at his office?
Ration cards
Ration cards were the key to placing fugitives, because none were issued to Jews. Corrie meant to ask for a few and heard herself request a hundred; Fred turned up with two black eyes and the full stack.
Q 06In The Hiding Place, prisoners at Corrie's jail shout news between cells while the guards attend a party for whom?
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was being toasted by the guards that April afternoon, so names could be relayed down the corridor. Corrie learned that everyone seized in the raid had been freed except Betsie, with no word of Father.
Q 07In The Hiding Place, Father calms young Corrie's dread of death by comparing God's strength to which everyday item?
A train ticket
A train ticket, Father says, is handed over only at the moment of boarding, and strength arrives the same way. Corrie leans on the lesson decades later in the camps.
Q 08In The Hiding Place, which Dickens-inspired nickname does the ten Boom family give its wealthy friend Herman Sluring?
Pickwick
Pickwick earned the name by looking like the illustrations of the Dickens character. Corrie later finds the genial customer at the centre of the local underground, and he sends the architect who builds the secret room.
Q 09In The Hiding Place, the architect builds the secret room behind a false brick wall in which room of the Beje?
Corrie's bedroom
Corrie's bedroom sat at the very top of the house, giving fugitives the longest head start on a search. The space held six people, and all six stayed undiscovered during the raid.
Q 10In The Hiding Place, what does Corrie's nephew Peter play on a church organ that leads to his arrest?
The Dutch national anthem
The Dutch national anthem had just been outlawed by the occupiers, and the whole congregation rose to sing along. The Gestapo came for Peter within days and held him for two months.
Q 11In The Hiding Place, which university friend of Corrie's brother wins her heart, then marries a wealthier woman?
Karel
Karel walked with her daily and talked of a shared future, but his family expected a rich match. Father's advice that night, to give the blocked love back to God, stayed with Corrie for life.
Q 12In The Hiding Place, which Dutch informer betrays the ten Booms after asking for money to free his wife?
Jan Vogel
Jan Vogel worked with the Gestapo and exposed several resistance groups. When Corrie learns his name in the camps she cannot sleep for rage, until Betsie's pity for him moves her to pray for him too.
Q 13In The Hiding Place, which woman in Corrie's family tells the Gestapo that her houseguest Annaliese is Jewish?
Nollie
Q 21After the raid in The Hiding Place, the ten Booms are held at which seaside prison nicknamed the Oranjehotel?
Scheveningen
Scheveningen prison in The Hague was dubbed the Oranjehotel as a wry salute to inmates loyal to the House of Orange. More than 25,000 people passed through its cells under the occupation.
Q 22In The Hiding Place, Corrie and Betsie are reunited on the way to which concentration camp inside the Netherlands?
Vught
Vught raised and crushed the sisters' hopes in a single day. They were handed pink forms said to mean release, gave away their few belongings, and were then marched into the main camp.
Q 23In The Hiding Place, which illness has kept Corrie in bed for two days when the Gestapo raid the Beje?
Influenza
Nollie believed that God honours the truth and would protect the girl. She went to prison for her answer, yet within a week the underground had freed Annaliese along with dozens of other Jews held in Amsterdam.
Q 14In The Hiding Place, which ordained brother of Corrie arrives at a family party with a Jewish refugee from Germany?
Willem
Willem had studied antisemitism for his doctorate in Germany and saw the danger early. By the late 1930s his nursing home was already a refuge for Jews fleeing the Nazis.
Q 15In The Hiding Place, which German apprentice does Father dismiss for abusing the old repairman Christoffels?
Otto
Otto bragged of his Nazi youth group and sneered at the Old Testament, yet Father kept excusing him as lonely. He was sent away only after shoving the old man's face against a brick wall.
Q 16In The Hiding Place, which nickname do Corrie and Father give Harry de Vries, a stranger met on daily walks?
The Bulldog
The Bulldog walked two dogs whose faces matched his own. Under the occupation Harry poisoned his pets rather than leave them behind if he was taken, and the ten Booms began welcoming him after dark.
Q 17In The Hiding Place, which nickname does Corrie give the Ravensbrück guard with a shiny dress under her uniform?
The Snake
The Snake is vicious at roll call, yet she is the guard who orders a stretcher when Betsie can no longer move. The General, another nickname in the book, belongs to a silent prison matron.
Q 18In The Hiding Place, which German lieutenant questions Corrie in a hut, then asks her about the Bible?
Rahms
Rahms confesses that he hates his prison work and fears for his wife and children in Germany. Corrie had expected a trap, and instead found herself telling her interrogator about light in a dark world.
Q 19In The Hiding Place, which surname do the underground workers Corrie meets all use as an alias?
Smit
Smit was such a common cover name that Father asked the architect which Smits he was related to. Meyer Mossel got it too, joining the household as Eusebius Smit.
Q 20What was the first name of Corrie ten Boom's father, who died in custody days after the family's arrest?
Casper
Casper ten Boom was 84 when the Gestapo offered to send him home if he caused no more trouble. He answered that he would open his door to the next person who knocked, and he stayed a prisoner.
Influenza left her too feverish to weigh up the stranger who came asking for money, and she was back in bed when the raid began. A prison doctor later noted her as pre-tubercular, hoping it would help her.
Q 24In The Hiding Place, what does a prison nurse slip to the sick Corrie along with soap and safety pins?
The four Gospels
The four Gospels came as small booklets tucked in with the soap, and her cellmates would not touch them. Being caught with scripture meant extra punishment, yet Corrie later gave the booklets away one by one.
Q 25In The Hiding Place, which small visitors to her solitary cell does Corrie feed crumbs to keep them coming back?
Ants
Ants were her only company after weeks alone, so she saved bread crumbs to draw them back. She learned later that she had been isolated because her illness was thought contagious, not as a punishment.
Q 26In The Hiding Place, which legal formality does a kindly German officer use as a pretext to reunite Corrie's family?
Reading Father's will
Reading Father's will required the family to be present under Dutch law, or so the officer claimed. In that courtyard Corrie heard that the Jews left in the secret room had all slipped out past the police watch.
Q 27In The Hiding Place, which garment from a family parcel does Corrie smuggle into Ravensbrück to keep Betsie warm?
A blue sweater
A blue sweater came in the parcel her married sister sent to the prison, and it gives a late chapter its title. Corrie hid it with her Bible under shower-room benches to get both past the camp search.
Q 28In The Hiding Place, which of Corrie's smuggled supplies never seems to run out, however many prisoners share it?
Vitamin oil
A bottle of vitamin oil went on giving drops for a widening circle of sick women, which Betsie compared to the widow's oil jar in scripture. It ran dry the night a hospital worker smuggled them a new supply.
Q 29In The Hiding Place, the radios Corrie assembles as a prisoner, and is told to botch, are destined for which machines?
Fighter planes
Fighter planes of the German air force were to carry the sets, so the prisoner-foreman told Corrie to slow down and quietly miswired each one. She later learned his son had been shot in the camp.
Q 30In The Hiding Place, which condition in Corrie's legs keeps her in the camp hospital after her discharge is signed?
Edema
Edema had swollen her legs, and no prisoner was sent out looking unfit. She spent the wait carrying bedpans around a ward where nobody else would, stunned at how grateful the patients were.