Echo Comprehension Questions Week 3

DIRECTIONS:  Read pages 69 - 104.  Answer questions 1 - 18 below with complete sentences.  Submit your answers to Turnitin.com before 8:15 AM on Monday, 12/18/17.  

Part 1, Chapter 6

1. Why is Friedrich apprehensive about applying to the conservatory? Use evidence to support your answer.

2. Do you think his birthmark matters at a school like the conservatory? Why or why not?

3. “‘And now, more than ever, Germany needs its true citizens to rise to their potential to be shining examples‛” (82). What can you tell about Elisabeth from this statement?

4. What news does Elisabeth deliver to Father and Friedrich? Why do you think she made this decision? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

Part 1, Chapter 7

5. What is the League of German Girls? What are they advocates of?

6. What does Elisabeth believe is offensive? Why does this offend Father?

7. What does Father believe about music? Use evidence to support your answer.

8. “Intellectualism is frowned upon” (87). Explain what this means in your own words.

9. Who is allowed to join the Hitler Youth?

10. What is there such a difference between Father‛s beliefs and the beliefs of the family in Berlin? Why do you think there is such a difference in the same family? Use evidence to support your answer.

11. “His eyes filled with something Friedrich couldn‛t decipher- pity or fear or apprehension” (91). What do you think Uncle Gunter was thinking? Use evidence to support your answer.

Part 1, Chapter 8

12. What did Friedrich discover on his birth certificate? What does this discovery mean?

Part 1, Chapter 9

13. “Each week, your birthmark had become more prominent, as did the gossip and superstitions” (97). What are superstitions? What type of superstitions would there be about a birthmark?

14. “‘Adding the stigma of epilepsy would be too much‛” (97). What is a stigma?  Why would this be too much?

15. How did Friedrich‛s birth possibly ruin Elisabeth‛s change of a leadership position?

16. What is The Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring? How does this new law impact Friedrich?

17. Do you think Elisabeth would report her own family? Why or why not? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

18. Identify an example of personification on page 104. Why do you think the author made this decision as a writer?