Echo Reading Comprehension Questions - Week 2

DIRECTIONS:

1. Read Echo, pages 33 - 68

2. Answer questions 1 - 27 below in COMPLETE SENTENCES.

3. Turn in assignment by Monday, 12/11/17 at 8:15 AM to Turnitin.com



QUESTIONS:

Part 1, Intro

October 1933- Trossingen, Baden-Wurttemberg
Germany

1. What is the significance about the setting?


Part 1, Chapter 1

2. Why do you think this lullaby begins the chapter?

3. “...Friedrich Schmidt stood on the threshold of his half-timbered house, pretending to be brave” (40). What can you tell about Friedrich from this piece of evidence?

4. Why do you think Father had to watch Friedrich like a hawk?

5. What was Father‛s job?

6. Describe Friedrich‛s family life. If you make an inference, make sure you use evidence from the text to back up your thinking.

7. What was Father‛s advice to Friedrich as he walked to school? Why would that be his advice?

Part 1, Chapter 2

8. “Father would never have tolerated this posture” (44). What does posture say about a person? Can you infer a character trait about Freidrich about his posture? Use evidence to support your answer.

9. What group was Father a member of? What happened to this group?

10. What do we learn about Hitler in this chapter?

11. Why might Friedrich be targeted by Hitler and the Nazis? Use evidence to support your answer.

12. Why is Friedrich not in school? Use evidence to support your answer.


Part 1, Chapter 3

13. What does Friedrich hear that makes him different from other kids?

14. What problems was Friedrich having in school? What happened because of these issues?

15. What did the headmaster recommend for Friedrich‛s future? How does Father respond?

16. After Friedrich is pulled out of school, he attends work with Father. How does Father‛s business respond to having an eight year old there? Why would they act this way?

17. “Had Father not been holding him, he too might have floated away on the wind, like a dandelion‛s white-seeded parachutes” (58). Is this a good or a bad thing? Use evidence to support your answer.


Part 1, Chapter 4

18. “The energy inside the factory was palpable” (59). What does the word palpable mean?

19. How does Anselm react to Friedrich receiving private tutoring? Why do you think he reacts this way? Use evidence to support your answer.

20. “‘You know, the new Germany doesn‛t like favorites‛” (61). Why are favorites a bad thing?

21. Why does Ernst think the harmonica emblem will be going away? Use evidence to support your answer.

22. What does the company‛s emblem represent? Do you think they should get rid of their emblem for business? Why or why not?

23. What is Dachau? Describe the setting there.

24. If Friedrich and his family were forced to join the Nazi party, what do you think they would do? Use evidence to support your answer.


Part 1, Chapter 5

25. Where did Friedrich go during his lunch break? What did he discover?

26. “‘Friedrich, my boy, you‛ll be a hero if the men find out you went to the graveyard alone. Most of them wouldn‛t dare!‛” (76). Why is this ironic? Hint: Think about what Friedrich was afraid of at the beginning of Part One?

27. Identify an example of personification on page 77. Why do you think the author included this in the chapter?