Number the Stars Review
Game

Plot Vocabulary and History
Characters Themes Literary
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Plot 100
Why did the Danes destroy their own
Navy?

Plot 100
To keep the Nazi’ s from using their ships.

Plot 200
How did the
Johanson’s hide Ellen when the Nazi’s came?

Plot 200
They claimed Ellen was their daughter Lise.

Plot 300
What is the major conflict in the novel?

Plot 300
The Nazi’s wanted to arrest all of the Jews and ‘relocate’ them.

Plot 400
Why did Mama take the girls on a trip to Uncle
Henrick’s?

Plot 400
So Uncle Henrick could smuggle Ellen, family, and few other people to safety in Sweden.

Plot 500
Why did Annemarie have to rip Ellen’s necklace off?

Plot 500
If the Nazi’s saw the necklace, they would know the Johansons were lying and that Ellen is not part of their family.

Characters 100
What are some clues that Peter is part of the Resistance movement?

Characters 100
He brings people Die Frie
Danske , he’s always on the move, when he was out after curfew he brought Annemarie seashells, he helped hide the
Rosens and brought them to
Uncle Henrick’s, and led a group to the boat.

Characters 200
Why did Mrs. Rosen tell
Annemarie it was important to be one of the crowd?

Characters 200
It could be used against them in the future.

Characters 300
Daily Double!!!
Place your wager!

Daily Double Play
The character of Peter is based on which real person?

Daily Double Play
Kim Maulthe-Bruun

Characters 400
How does Annemarie’s character change through out the novel?

Characters 400
She begins as a light hearted child and grows as a girl with knowledge of what true friendship and gains an understanding of the evils of
WWII.

Characters 500
Why is Lise’s character important to the story?

Characters 500
Because she is an expression of love and joy and the Danish spirit during
WWII that the people of that country would fight for what was right in the ways that they could.

Vocabulary and History 100
“Three years, Annemarie thought with contempt .
Three years they’ve been in our country, and still they can’t speak the language.”
What does contempt mean?

Vocabulary and History 100
Disdain, anger.

Vocabulary and History 200
World War II began in what year?

Vocabulary and History 300
What is the prefix in inhumane and what does it mean?

Vocabulary and History 300
In = not

Vocabulary and History 400
What method did the
Danes use most to smuggle Jews to
Sweden?

Vocabulary and History 400
By hiding them in boats.

Vocabulary and History 500
How did the Danes feel about their king?

Vocabulary and History 500
King Christian was well loved and respected by his people.

Vocabulary and History 200
1939

Themes 100
What is theme?

Themes 100
A universal message or truth about life that is recurring through out the novel.

Literary Devices 100
How the author feels about the subject.

Literary Devices 100
What is Tone?

Literary Devices 200
Lowry probably wrote this story to…

Literary Devices 200
To show the determination of the
Danish people to protect their fellow countrymen.

Literary Devices 300
When Annemarie and
Ellen discovered that
Mrs. Hirsh’s button shop had been closed, this foreshadows…

Literary Devices 300
That the Nazi’s will soon start to arrest the
Jews.

Literary Devices 400
What is Setting?

Literary Devices 400
Where and when the story takes place.

Literary Devices 500
When Annemarie decides to wear
Ellen’s necklace, this symbolizes…

Literary Devices 500
Their strong bond of friendship.

Potpourri 100
What is Plot?

Potpourri 100
The sequence of events in a story.

Potpourri 200
‘The soldier had a neck like a giraffe’ is an example of what literary device?

Potpourri 200
A simile.

Potpourri 300
‘Uncle Henrik hates herring’ is an example of what literary device?

Potpourri 300
Alliteration

Potpourri 400
Define Flashback

Potpourri 400
A scene or event from the past that appears in a narrative out of chronological order, to fill in information or explain something in the present.

Potpourri 500
‘He is a bulldog!’ is an example of what literary device?

Potpourri 500
A Metaphor.

Theme 200
The theme of fairy tales in the novel is most prevalent when Annemarie is telling a tale to herself while taking the basket to Uncle Henrik.
What fairy tale is she telling herself?

Theme 200
Little Red Riding Hood

Theme 300
Why did Annemarie tell herself the fairy tale?

Theme 300
So she wouldn’t think of the danger she was facing.

Theme 400
Uncle Henrik tells Annemarie that being brave doesn’t necessarily mean not being scared. List one instance in which the reader can infer that Mama was scared, but acted bravely.

Theme 400
1) When she asked the soldiers to be quiet and not wake her children.
2) When she told the soldiers that Aunt Birdie had died of typhus, but she would open the coffin anyway.

Theme 500
Man’s Inhumanity to
Man

Theme 500
What is the theme that
Lowry uses when dealing with the actions of the Nazis?