Behind the Bedroom Wall

Chapters 1-5

Reading Check

1. A kitten (Chapter 1)

2. Rita (Chapter 1)

3. A “Jew-lover” (Chapter 1)

4. More paper to draw on (Chapter 5)

Short Answer

1. Rita views Jewish people as racially inferior. She is pleased with Germany’s action to rid the country of their insidious influence. (Chapter 1)

2. Eva feels some compunction about the cruelty towards Jews and those who aid them; she is upset when Herr Haase is beaten for being a “Jew-lover.” (Chapters 1-2)

3. Korinna, like Rita, hates the Jewish community. She is disgusted to find out that Sophie and Rachel are hiding in their house and is appalled to see her mother lowering herself to serve them. (Chapter 5)

4. Frau Rehme believes that Jewish people are as equally deserving of respect as other humans. She risks her life in this belief when she and Herr Rehme agree to harbor Sophie and Rachel. (Chapters 4-5)

Chapters 6-10

Reading Check

1. Eva (Chapter 6)

2. Jews and Soldiers (Chapter 9)

3. “My parents are the enemy” (Chapter 9)

4. Rita’s (Chapter 10)

Short Answer

1. Frau Rehme is upset at her daughter’s selfishness; Korinna is reluctant to share a dress she has grown out of and her kitten with Rachel, who (as Frau Rehme reminds Korinna) has nothing. (Chapter 6)

2. Korinna is slow and out of time with the other girls in delivering the “Heil Hitler” salute. (Chapter 7)

3. Korinna tells Rita that her mother wouldn’t have made any food, so Rita shouldn’t come to Korinna’s house. Rita reminds Korinna that she has been told that she is always welcome at the Rehmes’ house; Korinna’s reluctance to have her over clearly arouses Rita’s suspicion. (Chapter 9)

4. Hans strikes Frau Rehme in the face with the bronze statue during the raid. (Chapter 10)

Chapters 11-15

Reading Check

1. Blonde (Chapter 11)

2. For harboring Jews (Chapter 11)

3. Herr Krugmann (Chapter 13)

4. Eva (Chapter 13)

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Rachel wishes her hair was blonde so that she wouldn’t have to hide. (Chapter 11)

2. Rita explains that she thinks about Jewish people all of the time; she admits that she actually feels sorry for them. Korinna excitedly confesses that she feels the same way. (Chapter 12)

3. Rachel draws Ruth with blonde hair and blue eyes; Korinna surmises that she has forgotten what her older sister looked like. (Chapter 12)

4. Korinna realizes that Rita was trying to goad Korinna into admitting that she was sympathetic to Jewish people to provide a pretext for her brother Hans, a Gestapo officer, to raid their home. (Chapters 14-15)