Escape

Author: Sandy Zaugg

© 2007 by Pacific Press®

Readability Level 5.2 / Points 5

Word Count: 16,771

96 pages

Content

1. They had to leave ______when they were in a train wreck.

a. Dieter’s bike / b. Dieter’s father
c. Mutti’s dishes / d. their suitcases

2. The German soldiers promised the people that they had ______.

a. a new leader / b. a plan for getting food
c. a secret weapon to win the war. / d. none of these

3. Herr Zuber said Hitler could not rule the world because of ______.

a. America’s natural resources / b. Germany’s lack of a seaport
c. his cruelty to the Jews / d. the toes of Daniel’s image

4. The Russians were upset because many of the people going west were ______.

a. professors and scientists / b. soldiers and farmers
c. thieves and terrorists / d. none of these

5. After the war Dieter worked for the ______.

a. Americans / b. British / c. elementary school / d. Russians

6. Dieter was hired because he could ______.

a. shoot a rifle / b. drive the jeep
c. speak Russian / d. none of these

7. Dieter worked as a ______.

a. clerk / b. Janitor / c. translator / d. all of these

8. Dieter received ______for his work for the GIs.

a. food and cigarettes / b. money and commissary privileges
c. a travel pass and a garden plot / d. all of these

9. Mutti’s husband joined them in ______.

a. America / b. Canada / c. Russia / d. none of these

10. Mutti never saw her in-laws after the Steinerts went to ______.

a. Austria / b. Canada / c. Czechoslovakia / d. Hungary


Vocabulary

11. GI stood for ______.

a. German Institute / b. government issue
c. gunnery infantry / d. none of these

12. Floodlights were used ______.

a. to keep track of how high the flood waters were
b. as lights on a car that worked in a flood
c. to light up a large area
d. none of these

13. A fugitive is someone who is ______.

a. escaping illegally / b. selling things that are stolen
c. very ill / d. an enemy soldier

14. Unconditional surrender means ______.

a. you agree to what the other side says with no deals
b. you compromise on who is right
c. both of these
d. neither of these

15. A refugee is someone who ______.

a. is escaping illegally / b. had to leave their home
c. sells stolen goods / d. none of these

16. A predicament is a situation ______.

a. that has problems no matter what you do / b. that is full of promise
c. that is dangerous / d. all of these

17. Marmalade is a kind of ______.

a. aircraft / b. dog / c. jam / d. shoes

18. A regiment is a large ______.

a. farm / b. unit of soldiers / c. truck / d. factory floor

19. At a seminary one studies to be a ______.

a. doctor / b. businessman / c. preacher / d. pilot

20. Chaplains work to help ______.

a. build roads / b. design airplanes
c. sick people / d. write movie scripts