Q 01/05

In The Hiding Place, which pests kept guards out of Barracks 28, letting the sisters hold Bible readings?

A) Rats

B) Fleas

C) Bedbugs

D) Wasps

Answer · why

B) 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 kne...

Q 02/05

Corrie ten Boom's release from Ravensbrück, days after her sister Betsie died there, was later blamed on what?

A) A prisoner exchange

B) A bribed guard

C) A clerical error

D) A Red Cross appeal

Answer · why

C) 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 chamb...

Q 03/05

Corrie ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place, died in 1983 at the age of 91 on which day?

A) Christmas Day

B) Easter Sunday

C) Dutch Liberation Day

D) Her own birthday

Answer · why

D) 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 th...

Q 04/05

In The Hiding Place, the ten Booms hide Jews half a block from the police station in which Dutch city?

A) Haarlem

B) Rotterdam

C) Utrecht

D) Delft

Answer · why

A) 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 ...

Q 05/05

In The Hiding Place, what does Fred Koornstra supply to Corrie each month after faking a robbery at his office?

A) Identity papers

B) Travel permits

C) Petrol coupons

D) Ration cards

Answer · why

D) 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; F...