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 * Once - Morris Gleitzman **

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6. Because maybe some people have really good stories that they want to tell people, but they don’t have enough courage to tell, so maybe he wrote this story to get people to have enough courage and someday tell those stories. =====

** Chapter Questions - Chapter One. **  1. What is the setting (time and place) of Once ? 2. Before World War II started, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union became allies or friends. Why could this be a problem for Poland? (HINT: look at the map). 3. From whose perspective or point of view is the story told? 4. Describe your first impressions of Felix, Mother Minka and one other character introduced in the opening chapter (consider the traits they appear to possess and your response to meeting them). 5. What is the significance of the carrot and what are Felix’s plans for it? 6. What do we learn about Felix’s parents from this chapter?

Chapter Answers : Chapter One 1. At an Orphanage in Poland in 1942. 2. It could be a problem because Germany is so close to Poland and they could join up and attack Poland. 3. The story is told by the main character Felix. 4. Felix :Good at making up stories and likes to adventure. Mother Minka : She is very good with children, and likes to help people. Dodek : A quiet boy that likes to do his own thing and be by himself a lot of the time. 5. Felix thinks that the whole carrot was a sign to tell him that his parents were coming to get him. 6. That they are Jewish Book Sellers and they gave Felix to the orphanage because, they couldn’t handle him anymore.

** Questions : ** 1. Why were Jewish children among the first victims to be sent to their deaths? 2. What happened to Jewish school children under Nazi legislation? 3. When the Jews were put in ghettos, why was it that the children became useful as smugglers? 4. Name THREE places where Jewish children were hidden when the Nazis started to send the Jews to death camps. 5. What happened to some of the children who were very young when they were separated from their parents? 6. Because the Why is the historical investigation of children during the Shoah or Holocaust important?

** Questions: Answers : ** 1. To ensure the total destruction of the Jewish people. 2. The Jewish children got separated from non-jewish children and then got expelled. 3. Because they had been brought up like that ? 4. Convents, Monasteries and Boarding Schools. 5. Some of them found homes of Non - Jews, and some lived under false identity. 6. Because millions of children, because someone had a problem with Jews.