Q 01/05

In The Book Thief, who narrates Liesel Meminger's story and says it saw her only three times?

A) Time

B) Destiny

C) Death

D) War

Answer · why

C) Death

Death tells the story, a weary and wry guide who distracts himself from his work by studying the sky. He admits that the survivors left behind are wha...

Q 02/05

In The Book Thief, which stolen book does Hans use for Liesel's first midnight reading lessons?

A) The Complete Duden Dictionary

B) The Grave Digger's Handbook

C) The Dream Carrier

D) A Song in the Dark

Answer · why

B) The Grave Digger's Handbook

The Grave Digger's Handbook was dropped by an apprentice at her brother's burial, and Liesel took it though she could not read. Hans, a poor reader hi...

Q 03/05

In The Book Thief, which American athlete does Rudy imitate by rubbing charcoal over his body?

A) Jesse Owens

B) Joe Louis

C) Jack Johnson

D) Satchel Paige

Answer · why

A) Jesse Owens

Jesse Owens had just won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Rudy's father drags him home from the track and warns him never to pretend to b...

Q 04/05

In The Book Thief, the Hubermanns live on poor Himmel Street; what does 'Himmel' mean in English?

A) Mountain

B) Church

C) Market

D) Heaven

Answer · why

D) Heaven

Heaven is the meaning, and the narrator makes bitter use of it, asking whether anyone would bomb a place with such a name.

Q 05/05

In The Book Thief, the narrator's final line to an elderly Liesel is 'I am haunted by' what?

A) Wars

B) Humans

C) Stories

D) Memories

Answer · why

B) Humans

Humans are what haunt the narrator, who wants to ask Liesel how one species can be "so ugly and so glorious" but never does.