thehidingplace

The Hiding Place

Test review

1. Know the names of the characters and key actions of those characters.

2. Know the quotations from the worksheets, and be able to identify the speaker in each, the events surrounding the quotation and the meaning of the quotation.

3. Know the foreign terms that we have discussed.

4. Know the key places and events in The Hiding Place - Haarlem (Corrie's city), Amsterdam (the official capital of Holland and the location of the astronomical clock), The Hague (the unofficial seat of government in The Netherlands, the home of monarchy and the location of pariiament and the Supreme Court, The Beje (the house the Ten Booms live in in Haarlem), Mrs. Bierens de Haan's 56-room mansion (donated to fulfill Betsie's dream of having a house for former prisoners), Hanukkah (the Jewish festival of lights) and Kristallnacht (the night of the broken glass).

5. Know the key events of WWII which pertain to The Hiding Place - that

* the war officially began in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland,

* that the Germans invaded Holland in 1940,

*that U.S. involvement was from 1941-1945,

*that when the Nazis invaded Holland, Queen Wilhelmina fled to London, Jews were rounded up in events called razzias, and that Jews were forced to wear yellow stars.

* that when Germany invaded Holland, citizens of Holland were required to carry an ID card, to give up their radios, and to use ration cards to get food.

The following maps may help you recall Corrie's journey:

Map of The Netherlands - Starts at Haarlem, goes to Scheveningen in The Hague, then to Vught in southern Netherlands, (then to Ravensbruck in Germany)

Map of WWII Europe

Map of Concentration Camps and Death Camps - Notice that Ravensbruck is in Germany and not known as an extermination camp. Most extermination camps were in Poland.

6. Know the ghost writers (John and Elizabeth Sherill) and the date of publication of The Hiding Place (1971).

7. Know that this is non-fiction, and know that essays and biographies are also non-fiction but that novels, short stories and poems are fiction.

8. Know the events of Corrie's youth, particularly her interactions with Casper TenBoom -- the train ticket (God provides what you need right when you need it.) and the heavy traveling case/sexsin (Some things are too heavy for children.) stories. Know about Tante Jans "empty, empty" quote, and about Karel (Corrie's crush).

9. Know the events of Corrie's capture and incarceration - illness prior to capture, why she didn't take her bag, and where she was imprisoned. The family was sent first to Scheveningen prison in The Hague where Casper died ten days after his arrest in a hospital hallway. (Nollie, Willem, and Peter were all released from Scheveningen.) Betsie and Corrie were sent to the Vught political concentration camp, and finally to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.

10. Know the events of Corrie's release and info about her life after release (the clerical error that set her free, the donation of the Beje, the use of the 56-room mansion, and her encounter with a guard during a speaking engagement.)

11. Know that the beje was first donated as a safe haven for NSBers (those who had supported Germany in the war and were, therefore, hated by their Dutch countrymen after the war) and became a museum in 1988.

12. To see an all worksheet and answers except for 13-end, see Abby Johnson's 2018 study guide. This would make an excellent preparation tool as you'd have most of the information you need in one place.

13. To refresh events of the story, you may want to read the Gradesaver study helps. Nothing on the test comes directly from this source, but some find it helpful since it summarizes the chapters.

14. Three or four questions are taken from the CBS 60 Minutes clip about Nazi hidden archives and holocaustpowerpoint.ppt , which were assigned for you to view.

OTHER STUDY MATERIALS

Audio (Youtube) The Hiding Place

Online post of text of The Hiding Place.

Webquest

HIDING PLACE WEBQUEST

Hiding Place Webquest Answer Sheet

Pictures and powerpoints

thebeje--thehidingplace.jpg

HolocaustNotesppt.ppt

holocaustpowerpoint.ppt

CBS 60 Minutes clip about Nazi hidden archives

Worksheets