Final Study Guide for "Projekt 1065."

2. What is Michael O'Shaunessey's age?

13

19. What is Projekt 1065?

A new jet-engine style plane that will change the war

1. Which of these best describes the setting of the story?

Berlin, Germany, 1943

54. Britain never got the blueprints for Projekt 1065.

False

55. Michael was given a medal by Churchill and was hailed as a hero in the London newspapers.

False

51. Who kept Michael from falling to his death from the cable car?

Fritz

52. What happened to Fritz?

Fritz fell off the cable car because of an avalanche.

26. Where had Fritz learned the words "goofy dame" and "gumshoe"?

Fritz had learned English slang by reading forbidden books.

20. What happened as a result of Michael helping Fritz at the book burning?

Fritz showed Michael a blueprint of Projekt 1065.

34. What did Fritz do after Michael gave him such a beating in the boxing match?

Fritz threw his arms around Michael and hugged him

45. Why did the Germans want to kill the scientist Hendrik Goldsmit?

Goldsmit was working for the Americans on an atomic bomb.

46. What had happened to Simon?

He had gotten lost and didn't meet up with his guide.

7. Michael spilled grape juice at dinner because:

He planned to search the German house for hidden information.

11. Why was Michael a member of Hitler Youth?

It was required.

25. What happened to kids who didn't agree with Hitler and were kicked out of Hitler Youth?

Joined the Edelweiss Pirates

43. What happened to Max?

Max died after a piece of shrapnel hit him.

42. What did Max see Michael do?

Max saw him adjust the knobs on the radar so they wouldn't hit any more Allied planes.

22. Michael feared that he couldn't get the blueprints because:

Michael and Fritz might be separated soon if Michael wasn't able to pass the initiation test into the senior Hitler Youth.

23. Why was Michael afraid of taking the initiation test?

Michael didn't think he could jump off a two-story building into a pool.

12. Why does Michael have a soft spot for Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher?

Michael felt that his teacher didn't really support the Nazis.

48. What did Michael do to get himself a spot on the science team?

Michael gave Horst a brutal beating, leaving him barely alive.

21. What was the reason that Michael was able to return home to be with Simon during air raids?

Michael had a job to do outside when the sirens went off, so no one knew exactly where he was.

47. What did Simon tell Michael to do about the planned assassination of Goldsmit?

Michael had to be a part of the science team and stop the assassination himself.

53. What happened to Michael?

Michael met his parents in Bern and they all escaped to London.

30. When Michael was boxing with Fritz, what change came over him?

Michael suddenly wanted to badly hurt Fritz.

40. After Fritz's father had packed away the blueprints, who or what helped Michael find them?

Michael used what he had learned from Kim's Game and looked for what was new in the room.

27. Why did Michael offer to help Fritz train for the SRD?

Michael was using Fritz so he could copy his father's blueprints.

5. Who trained Michael to be a spy?

Michael's mother

8. When the butler almost discovered Michael in the German man's study, what did Michael's mother do to save him?

Michael's mother used chloroform on the butler to make him unconscious.

41. What caused Michael's father to decide to get his family out of Berlin?

Michael's new assignment of manning an antiaircraft gun

49. What happened to Simon?

Simon punched a guard, pretended to escape, and was shot and killed by the Nazis.

44. Why was Michael late meeting Simon?

The Edelweiss Pirates attacked.

13. Which of these was NOT something the Germans announced in school?

The German army had surrendered to the Russians and had lost 285,000 German soldiers in the battle of Stalingrad.

17. What happened to the pilot's camera and film?

The Germans found the camera and destroyed the film.

39. When Michael called the police to save Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher, why didn't his plan work?

The police were afraid to stand up to the boys wearing SRD uniforms.

29. Why was Michael afraid for Herr Professor Doktor Major Melcher?

The teacher was talking out against Nazi doctrine, Fritz had ordered the teacher to pick up a piece of paper, the other Hitler Youth boys turned against their teacher.

36. What secret did Fritz show Michael at his house?

a box of mystery novels hidden in his room

32. What item were the boys given at the end of their initiation ceremony?

a dagger

10. What did Michael find in the German man's study?

a hidden set of numbers, the map coordinates pinpointing the location of a new engine factory, and a playing card in a book that appeared to have never been read

15. Michael has ___________________ a fear of ___________________.

acrophobia, heights

50. Why were Michael and Goldsmit in danger as they were riding down the mountain in the cable car?

because Fritz jumped onto the roof of the cable car carrying the bomb

9. Why was the Irish embassy one of the few embassies still open in Berlin?

because Ireland was neutral

35. Why wasn't Fritz surprised that Michael was assigned to the SRD?

because Michael had shown that he could be ruthless

33. Why did Michael think the other boys were afraid of Fritz after the beating?

because he had gotten back up again to fight, and they wouldn't have

14. Why did the Hitler Youth boys attack the new boy, Fritz Brendler?

because he wasn't burning books

18. Michael's mother said that women and children made terrific spies:

because people always underestimate them

37. Where did Michael see the blueprints for Projekt 1065?

hanging on the wall in Fritz's dad's study

31. Simon's girlfriend, Mary, broke up with him because:

her parents didn't approve of him because he was Jewish

38. What did Simon tell Michael that playing Kim's Game would do for him?

improve his memory

28. Where was Simon, the British pilot, hiding?

in a secret closet in the Irish embassy

3. Michael's father:

is the ambassador to Germany

4. Which word choice would Michael most likely use to describe the Nazis?

monsters

24. Simon helped Michael get ready for the initiation test by:

teaching him to distract himself by thinking of jokes

6. Michael has:

the ability to easily learn languages and a photographic memory

16. What did Michael do when he found the British pilot?

took his parents to rescue the pilot