89 pages 2 hours read

Monica Hesse

Girl in the Blue Coat

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2016

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Multiple Choice

1. What is Hanneke’s primary feeling toward Bas in the Prologue, when she thinks about Bas and what she would done differently had she known he would die?

A) She feels that Bas is in a better place now.

B) She feels Bas’s death is her fault.

C) She feels Bas would be shocked at recent atrocities.

D) She feels that she won’t know peace until Bas’s family forgives her.

2. What is Hanneke’s motto, which makes her wonder if she should indeed help Mrs. Janssen find Mirjam Roodveldt?

A) Only the good die young

B) Survival first

C) Only the smart survive

D) Carpe diem

3. As a black-market trader, what keeps Hanneke safe, especially when compared with the resistance?

A) Isolation keeps Hanneke safe, unlike the resistance whose safety comes from being in a group.

B) Money keeps Hanneke safe, since her profiteering shopkeeper clients make sure she is paid. The resistance’s efforts are largely unpaid.

C) Youth keeps Hanneke safe. The resistance has some older members in their group who must be looked after and cared for.

D) Connections to the black market keep Hanneke safe. She has access to knowledge and resources that the resistance does not.

4. Hanneke mistakes Ollie’s resistance meeting for what in Chapter 7?

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