Girl in the Blue Coat 99 Review Questions With 100% Correct Answers
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For how many weeks had Mrs. Janssen hidden the girl in the blue coat? - ️️Three weeks
How did Hanneke's apartment smell? - ️️Like frying parsnips and sausages
How did Mirjam escape the Germans and not get killed with the rest of her family? - ️️She was in the bathroom when the Germans...
Girl in the Blue Coat 99 Review
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For how many weeks had Mrs. Janssen hidden the girl in the blue coat? - ✔ ✔ Three weeks
How did Hanneke's apartment smell? - ✔ ✔ Like frying parsnips and sausages
How did Mirjam escape the Germans and not get killed with the rest of her family? - ✔ ✔ She was in
the bathroom when the Germans came in and she ran out the front door and all the way to the
Janssen's house.
How did Mrs. Janssen always look? - ✔ ✔ Her hair in a bun, and her glasses slipping down her face
How did Mrs. Janssen know that the girl in the blue coat couldn't have left her house through the front
door? - ✔ ✔ Mrs. Janssen had been sitting on Mrs. Veenstra's front steps right across the street
How did Mrs. Janssen know the girl in blue couldn't have left through her back door? - ✔ ✔ She had
installed a latch to keep it shut because it was warped and wouldn't close all the way and the latch was
still locked.
How far to the south of Amsterdam is Rotterdam? - ✔ ✔ 75 kilometers
How many Dutch servicemen were killed when they fought against the Germans for five days to protect
the border of Holland? - ✔ ✔ 2,000
How many people were killed in Rotterdam on May 14, 1940 when the German planes dropped bombs
on it? - ✔ ✔ 900 civilians
What did Hanneke do with the diary she had received as a birthday present for her 9th birthday and
hadn't written in for five years? - ✔ ✔ She turned it into a scrapbook after she met Bas
What did Hanneke do with the paper Mrs. Janssen had written on to record the timeline of the
disappearance of the girl in the blue coat? - ✔ ✔ She burned it up
What did Hanneke forget to say to Bas? - ✔ ✔ That she loved him too
What did Hanneke give to Bas before he left to fight in the war? - ✔ ✔ A locket with her photo inside
What did Hanneke have hidden underneath the potatoes she showed to the Green Police officer? - ✔
✔ Sausages, lipsticks, and lotions bought with dead men's rations, cigarettes and alcohol
What did Hanneke like to think of herself as? - ✔ ✔ A finder
What did Hanneke's father call her? - ✔ ✔ Hannie
, What did Jews have to wear on their clothing in 1943? - ✔ ✔ A Yellow Jodenster
What did many Dutch boys use as nicknames? - ✔ ✔ The middle of their names, rather than the first
part
What did Mrs. Janssen get when her youngest son, Jan, died? - ✔ ✔ A cane
What did Mrs. Janssen serve to Hanneke that was usually saved for special occasions? - ✔ ✔ Real
coffee and stroopwafel
What did Mrs. Janssen tell Hanneke about the missing girl? - ✔ ✔ She was Jewish and she needed
Hanneke to find her before the Nazis did.
How much younger was Jan Janssen than his two older brothers? - ✔ ✔ Twenty years
What color were NSB (Nationaal Socialische Beweging) uniform? - ✔ ✔ black
What color were the German soldier's uniforms? - ✔ ✔ green
What country is Amsterdam in? - ✔ ✔ Holland
What did Bas give to Hanneke the day before he left to fight in the war? - ✔ ✔ A lock of hair
What did Hanneke ask the Green Police officer about that made him uncomfortable? - ✔ ✔ The
gold, heart-shaped locket he had around his neck
What did Hanneke do with soldiers on the streets of Amsterdam, even though she didn't like them? - ✔
✔ flirted
What did Mrs. Janssen's dresses remind Hanneke of? - ✔ ✔ A curtain or sofa
What did people call the Dodendraad electric fence between Belgium and Holland? - ✔ ✔ The wire
of death
What did people often use to make ersatz (substitute) coffee? - ✔ ✔ Ground acorns or twigs
What did the Germans give to people and make them use to buy food, clothes, kerosene, and rubber? -
✔ ✔ Monthly ration cards
What does Hoe heet je mean? - ✔ ✔ What is your name?
What does Verdorie mean? - ✔ ✔ Damn it!
What had been the name of Hanneke's best friend when she had been in school? - ✔ ✔ Elsbeth Vos
What had the NSB neighbor's wife used to do for Hanneke? - ✔ ✔ Braid her hair and make her spice
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