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 fatherc. 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 foodc. 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 seaportc. 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 farmersc. thieves and terrorists / d. none of these
5. After the war Dieter worked for the ______.
a. Americans / b. British / c. elementary school / d. Russians6. Dieter was hired because he could ______.
a. shoot a rifle / b. drive the jeepc. speak Russian / d. none of these
7. Dieter worked as a ______.
a. clerk / b. Janitor / c. translator / d. all of these8. Dieter received ______for his work for the GIs.
a. food and cigarettes / b. money and commissary privilegesc. 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 these10. 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 issuec. gunnery infantry / d. none of these
12. Floodlights were used ______.
a. to keep track of how high the flood waters wereb. 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 stolenc. very ill / d. an enemy soldier
14. Unconditional surrender means ______.
a. you agree to what the other side says with no dealsb. 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 homec. 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 promisec. that is dangerous / d. all of these
17. Marmalade is a kind of ______.
a. aircraft / b. dog / c. jam / d. shoes18. A regiment is a large ______.
a. farm / b. unit of soldiers / c. truck / d. factory floor19. At a seminary one studies to be a ______.
a. doctor / b. businessman / c. preacher / d. pilot20. Chaplains work to help ______.
a. build roads / b. design airplanesc. sick people / d. write movie scripts