Q 01/05

In Snow Treasure, what do the children build over each spot where they bury gold bricks after a sled run?

A) Snowmen

B) Rock piles

C) Ski racks

D) Igloos

Answer · why

A) Snowmen

Snowmen marked the buried bricks so that Uncle Victor and his mate could find them after dark and carry them to the hidden boat.

Q 02/05

In Snow Treasure, what does Peter throw at the German Commandant to draw him away from the hidden gold?

A) A ski pole

B) A snowball

C) A fir cone

D) A lump of ice

Answer · why

B) A snowball

A snowball hit the Commandant before he could uncover the gold, and the furious officer had Peter locked in a cell at the German barracks.

Q 03/05

In Snow Treasure, what keeps the village school shut so the children can go on sledding the gold?

A) A burst boiler

B) A teachers' strike

C) A fake epidemic

D) A fallen roof

Answer · why

C) A fake epidemic

A fake epidemic did it: the doctor painted red dots on the smallest children, then told the German commander that lessons could not possibly restart.

Q 04/05

In Snow Treasure, the soldier in German uniform who spies on the sledding children is really from which country?

A) Denmark

B) Austria

C) Finland

D) Poland

Answer · why

D) Poland

Poland was his home until the invaders captured him and pressed him into their ranks; he begs Uncle Victor for passage to America.

Q 05/05

Which American author wrote Snow Treasure, the 1942 children's novel about sleds loaded with smuggled gold?

A) Lois Lowry

B) Marguerite Henry

C) Esther Forbes

D) Marie McSwigan

Answer · why

D) Marie McSwigan

Marie McSwigan wrote ten children's books and two adult biographies, and said that resourcefulness was the theme running through all of them.