Q 01/05

Corrie ten Boom was the Netherlands' first woman licensed in which trade, her father Casper's craft?

A) Bookbinding

B) Watchmaking

C) Diamond cutting

D) Printing

Answer · why

B) Watchmaking

Watchmaking became Corrie's trade after she took over the shop's bookkeeping while her sister Betsie was ill. She found she loved the business side an...

Q 02/05

Corrie ten Boom died in 1983 on which day, which Jewish tradition reserves for the specially blessed?

A) The Day of Atonement

B) Dutch Liberation Day

C) Her own birthday

D) Passover's first night

Answer · why

C) Her own birthday

Her own birthday, 15 April, was the day Corrie ten Boom died, exactly 91 years after she was born a month premature. She had outlived her brother and ...

Q 03/05

What freed Corrie ten Boom from a Nazi camp in 1944, twelve days after her sister died there?

A) A prisoner exchange

B) A Red Cross appeal

C) A clerical error

D) A bribed guard

Answer · why

C) A clerical error

A clerical error set Corrie ten Boom free, as she learned only afterwards. She was told that the other women of her age in the camp were sent to the g...

Q 04/05

Behind a false wall in which room of the ten Boom house was the secret hiding place built?

A) Corrie's bedroom

B) The attic

C) The coal cellar

D) The back parlour

Answer · why

A) Corrie's bedroom

Corrie's bedroom, up a steep staircase, concealed the narrow space, which was built to hold six people and had its own ventilation. Everyone in hiding...

Q 05/05

Which pests in Corrie and Betsie ten Boom's camp barracks kept guards away from their Bible meetings?

A) Rats

B) Bedbugs

C) Wasps

D) Fleas

Answer · why

D) Fleas

Fleas infested the barracks so badly that the guards kept their distance, as the sisters later found out. Betsie had insisted on thanking God even for...