The Hiding Place - Chapter 10-12 Review

As Corrie worked at intricate work she felt that Mr. Moorman was like what?

A kindly older brother

Father responds to the Gestapo interrogator that he will continue to help anyone who knocks on his door and is in trouble.

After the ten Booms are transferred to Gestapo Headquarters in the Hauge, a chief interrogator offers to let Corrie's father go if he does not cause any more trouble. What is Father's response?

After two weeks in prison, Corrie is taken to a doctor's clinic, because she is sick with the flu?

After two weeks in prison, where is Corrie taken and why?

What was Corrie endlessly thankful for at Vught?

Being with people.

Corrie and the lieutenant have several interrogations after the first one, where they discuss matters from the Bible and their lives before the war.

During her following interrogations with the lieutenant, what do the two discuss?

Corrie receives news from Nollie at home hidden in a coded message beneath the stamp on the package Nollie sent her.

How does Corrie receive news from Nollie at home?

Four other women are in prison with Corrie at Scheveningen.

How many other people are put in a prison cell with Corrie in Scheveningen?

What condition did Mrs. Floor have?

She was pregnant.

From what disease was Mr. Floor suffering?

TB

What news did Corrie and Betsie receive that gave them hope?

They thought they were being released.

Where had they been taken after a long day of waiting, thinking they had been released?

To the center of Vught, a concentration camp for political prisoners.

Corrie fears she may have angered the lieutenant because she tells him about what is in the Bible, and ultimately compares him to a half-wit.

What does Corrie do that she fears may have angered the lieutenant?

Corrie occupies her time by embroidering, using the needle and thread from the towel that Nollie sent.

What does Corrie do to occupy her time?

During her family reunion at her father's will reading Corrie learns the circumstances of her father's death, and more details of how the hidden Jews from the Beje have escaped.

What does corrie learn during her brief family reunion?

The lieutenant thinks that the Beje has been a headquarters for raids on food ration offices.

What does the lieutenant who interrogates Corrie think has been occurring at the Beje?

As a result of her visit to the doctor, Corrie is put in to solitary confinement.

What is a direct result of Corrie's visit to the doctor's clinic?

Nollie's smuggled message is that all the Jews who had been hidden at the Beje were safe.

What news did Nollie smuggle in?

The negative change the new matron makes is that all of Corrie's personal few items are removed from her cell.

What one negative change does the new matron make?

Corrie leans about the fate of her family when the prison guards leave their prisoners unattended during birthday party for Adolph Hitler, and the prisoners pass names and information back and forth throughout the cells.

When and how does Corrie learn the fate of her family members?

After the Gestapo headquarters, the ten Booms are transferred to Scheveningen, a federal penitentiary (prison).

Where are the ten Booms transferred next, after their visit at the Gestapo headquarters?

Corrie is able to see her brother, Willem, and sisters Nollie and Betsie. She also sees Willem's wife, Tine and Nollie's husband Flip.

Whom does Corrie get to see at the reading of her father's will?

Corrie hopes to be taken to the hut with flowers around it because she thinks that perhaps the interrogator there will be more humane and kind than most of them.

Why does Corrie hope to be taken to the hut with flowers around it?

The lieutenant tells Corrie to walk slowly through Corridor as she returns to her cell, because he found out that Betsie is in Corridor F, and he wants to secretly help her to see Betsie, even if only briefly.

Why does the lieutenant tell Corrie to walk slowly in Corridor F as she returns to her cell?

When the new matron arrives, Corrie's life changes, and she is able to get two showers a week, and clean sheets every two weeks.

With the arrival of a new head matron, a few things change pleasantly for Corrie. What are some of the positive changes?

The code word for approaching guards was "thick clouds". What did they change it to after they were punished?

"Fifteen"

How many of the male prisoners were executed in one day?

700

The interrogation hut is different because it has flowers planted around it.

After three months in prison, Corrie is taken to her interview, where she notices one of the interrogations huts is different from the rest. What is unusual about that hut.

The other news Corrie receives is that her father died after 10 days in prison.

Besides the safety of the Jews: What other news does Corrie receive?

What miracle happened as Corrie boarded the train? (The prisoners were being taken by train from Scheveningen.)

Corrie had seen Betsie and she grasped her hand as they boarded the train together. It seemed that with Betsie, Corrie could endure anything.

Corrie receives a package from her sister Nollie? that has the same blue sweater that Corrie sent to Nollie while Nollie was in prison. The package also contains vitamins, cookies, needle and thread and a towel.

From whom does Corrie receive a package and what is in it?

The hidden Jews were taken to safety four days after the raid on the Beje. The Nazi guards were replaced by Haarlem police officers, and Ralph and another Underground member were able to be on duty and sneak them out to safety.

How were the hidden Jews taken out of the Beje hiding place, to safety, while under guard?

Who did Corrie feel like killing?

Jan Vogt, who had sided with the enemy and caused many underground participants to be caught.

Mary, the elderly asthmatic hidden Jew has continued to have health problems. She was arrested.

One of the hidden Jews has had some trouble. Who, and what is her trouble?

In the crowded freight car for what was Betsie thankful?

That Father was in Heaven.

Corrie and Betsie wept tears of joy the second time that night. Why?

They were not heading to Germany.

Where was the train passing at dawn?

Through the border town of Emmerich. They had arrived in Germany.

The lieutenant says he is in a prison stronger than Corrie's, and it could mean several things, such as the emotional prison he is in because of the Nazi regime, or such as the spiritual prison he is in after doing some bad things, things that the Bible doesn't support.

What does the lieutenant mean when he says that he is an prison stronger than this one Corrie is in?

The nurse smuggles soap, safety pins and four books of the Gospels (scriptures) to Corrie.

What does the nurse manage to smuggle to Corrie while she is at the doctors?

Corrie is able to determine that Betsie is still alive, and in good spirits, as she has turned her cell into a homey place for women--Corrie sees this as she walks by.

What is Corrie able to determine as she walks slowly past Betsie's cell?

Corrie is called back after her interrogation because she has to be present at the reading of her father's will.

Why is Corrie called back to the lieutenant's office, after her interrogation is over?