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Quiz based on Faraway Home
Thursday 14th March 2013 by Support
Quiz based on Faraway Home by Marilyn Taylor, prepared by Tom Hanley, Stratford National School, Dublin.
28 Feb, 2001

All of the answers are at the end.

1. What German word was used for the unification of Germany and Austria?

2. Which country was renamed 'Ostmark' by the Nazis?

3. What profession did Uncle Rudi have?

4. Who or what was Goldi?

5. Who in the story won the Iron Cross?

6. Who gave Rosa the iron ring?

7. Who warned the Muller Family about the coming violence of Kristallnacht?

8. What two sacred objects did the Rabbi rescue from the flames of Leopoldstrasse Synagogue?

9. What was the relationship between (a) Karl and Rosa; and (b) Tommy and Benji?

10. What were the Kindertransports?

11. What kind of book did Uncle Rudi give Karl?

12. From which railway station in Vienna did Karl and Rosa depart?

13. How many suitcases each were Karl and Rosa permitted to take with them out of Austria?

14. What bible story model toy did Rosa have to leave behind her in Austria?

15. Which construction toy, still available today, did Karl have to leave behind?

16. Karl and Rosa arrived at the port of Harwick. In what country is Harwick?

17. Name two features of London that Karl described in a card he sent to his parents.

18. Who was head of the Jewish Community in Belfast?

19. Eva came from ..., whilst Danny Grun came from ...

20. Which family in the story owned a Morris Minor?

21. With what industry in Belfast would you associate Harland and Wolff?

22. Yacobi came from a family with a background in what profession?

23. What kind of professional qualification did Mr Senesh have?

24. What kind of building was The Regal in Donaghadee?

25. What hot drink did the children have throughout their first night in Millisle?

26. Whose voice did the children hear announce on the radio that Britain was at war?

27. What were U-Boats?

28. What was Judy's family name?

29. Where in Dublin did Judy's family live?

30. What was Judy's favourite magazine?

31. What weekly event was organised in Dublin by the Jewish Youth Club?

32. What was the name of the kosher Holiday Hotel in Bray?

33. Tilly was suffering from 'consumption'. What is the official name for the disease?

34. To what Donegal seaside resort did Judy's friend, Nora, go on holiday that summer?

35. Judy's brother, Michael, was a student. What was he studying?

36. What weekly wage was paid to volunteers working at Millisle?

37. What was the role of the 'glimmer man' in Dublin during the wartime years?

38. Complete the wartime expression: 'Careless ... costs lives.'

39. Complete the wartime expression: 'Dig for ...'

40. What kind of sweet, not freely available in Northern Ireland, did Norman give Yacobi?

41. What three comics did the children see on the table when they arrived at Millisle?

42. Why were the windows in Belfast criss-crossed with sticky paper?

43. Where did the refugee children have breakfast on the morning of the Dubliners' arrival?

44. How did the refugee children working in the field know when it was noon?

45. What was known as 'The Emergency' in the Republic of Ireland?

46. If the refugees had not managed to get into Millisle Farm in Northern Ireland, to what island might they have been moved?

47. Where on the farm was Judy sent to work on her first day?

48. Where was Grace Doherty from?

49. Name three games or fun activities that took place in the rec.

50. Who was fostered by the Gould Family?

51. Judy ran away, terrified, from Alice. Who was Alice?

52. What job did Mr Teevan have in Millisle?

53. Who was the man on the white horse whose picture was painted on gable walls in Belfast?

54. Complete the name of this famous Viennese musical group: The Vienna Boys' ...

55. Complete the title of this traditional Ulster song: 'The Auld ... Flute'.

56. Complete Peewee's question: 'Well, are you ... Jews or ... Jews?'

57. Before their arrival in Dublin, Judy's family came from what European country?

58. What was Judy making when she was turning the handles of a wooden churn?

59. What traditional Jewish dance was danced by the refugees in the rec at Millisle?

60. What classic romantic film, which had just premiered in London, did Judy read about?

61. What does the German word Postilion mean?

62. How did Uncle Rudi die?

63. Who often went to Ballycopeland Windmill to think and reflect?

64. Who was with Karl and Rosa as they looked at their family photos in the byre at Millisle?

65. Who was Mitzi?

66. What job did Wee Billy have?

67. On what peninsula is Millisle?

68. As well as Jews, name another group of people Hitler tried to exterminate (wipe out).

69. What country could the refugees see across the sea from the beach at Donaghadee?

70. What kind of business did the Crawford Family run?

71. From the age of ten, in what industry did Granny Crawford work?

72. What is 'powse'?

73. Tommy made his way to what is now Israel. By what name was Israel known then?

74. When the air raid warning sounded, in addition to their coats, what other object did everyone bring with them?

75. What famous Jewish psalm, well known to Christians, was recited in the barn during the air raid alert?

76. Where had Karl previously met Bobby Hackett, goalkeeper of the village football team?

77. What was the final score in the football game?

78. Who was the only girl who played in the game?

79. Complete this statement from Rosa: 'I don't want that ..., I want my real ...'

80. Which Irish poet wrote the lines quoted by Karl to Judy?

81. What is the difference between a 'skein' of geese and a 'gaggle' of geese?

82. What did Lisl do back in Vienna that caused so much pain to Karl?

83. What do the words 'Liebe Judy' mean?

84. Why did the Nazis shoot Herr Klaar, Karl's old teacher back in Vienna?

85. After what important ceremonial meal did Karl plan to run away from Millisle?

86. What is Matzah?

87. The miraculous delivery of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt is called the 'E ...'

88. What small Christian group did great work both in helping victims of the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s and in assisting Jewish wartime refugees in Britain during the 1940s?

89. Where do Brent Geese breed?

90. What river did Karl and his friends cross as they travelled towards Lisburn?

91. How many children entered Britain by means of the Kindertransports?

92. Complete the sentence: 'Ideal bombing conditions were a ... sky and a ... moon.'

93. Which Taoiseach sent fire brigades to Belfast after the Blitz to help put out fires?

94. How many fire engines came to Belfast from Dublin?

95. How many people were killed in the Blitz of Belfast on the night of Easter Tuesday, 1941?
Was it a) 4 b) 24 c) 54 d) 745

96. How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?

97. How many of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust were children?

98. Complete these lines 'Come away, O human child, To the waters and the ...'

99. Name another book written by Marilyn Taylor.

100. Name another writer published by O'Brien Press.

101. Complete the advice given to Karl by Yakobi at the Passover Meal: 'We must have ..., without ..., we have nothing.'

Answers

Answers to Faraway Home quiz

1. Anschluss

2. Austria

3. A comic actor

4. The Muller's dog

5. Opa

6. Oma

7. Leni

8. Sacred scrolls, Menorah

9. First cousins

10. The transporting of Jewish children out of Germany to safety prior to the outbreak of WW2

11. A German-English dictionary or an autograph book

12. Westbahnhof Station

13. One each

14. Noah's ark

15. Meccano

16. England

17. Two of: Tower Bridge, Big Ben, red double-decker buses

18. Jack Freeman

19. Prague / Berlin

20. The Gould family

21. Shipbuilding

22. Medicine

23. A degree in agriculture

24. A cinema

25. Ovaltine

26. Mr Neville Chamberlain

27. German submarines

28. Simons

29. Portobello

30. Picturegoer

31. Hops (dances)

32. Stein's Kosher Hotel

33. Tuberculosis (TB)

34. Bundoran

35. Medicine

36. 2s/6p (half a crown)

37. He checked that gas was rationed and at reduced pressure

38. Talk

39. Victory

40. A wine gum

41. War Weekly, Hotspur, Beano

42. To reduce flying glass

43. Under a sycamore tree in the hayfield

44. The Angelus bell

45. World War Two

46. Isle of Man

47. The hen house

48. Tyrone

49. Ping pong, billiards, cardplaying, meetings, chats, dancing

50. Rosa

51. A cow

52. A vet

53. William of Orange

54. Choir

55. Orange

56. Roman Catholic / Protestant

57. Poland

58. Butter

59. Hora

60. Gone With the Wind

61. Postman

62. Suicide

63. Karl

64. Judy

65. Rosa's doll from Austria

66. A soldier

67. Ards

68. Gypsies, homosexuals, socialists, trade unionists, social democrats, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc

69. Scotland

70. A pub

71. The linen mills

72. White dust from the linen cloth

73. Palestine

74. Gas masks

75. The Lord's My Shepherd

76. At the local school

77. Village Team 2, Millisle Farm 1

78. Grace Doherty

79. Doll

80. W.B. Yeats

81. A 'skein' is a flock of geese in flight formation, a gaggle is a group of geese.

82. She joined the Hitler Youth Movement and ended her friendship with Karl.

83. Dear Judy

84. He sheltered people on the run from the Nazis.

85. Passover meal

86. Unleavened bread

87. The Exodus

88. The Quakers

89. The Arctic

90. The Lagan

91. Ten thousand

92. Cloudless / full

93. Eamon de Valera

94. Thirteen

95. (d) 745

96. Six million

97. One and a half million

98. Wild

99. Could This Be Love, Call Yourself A Friend, Could I Love A Stranger

100. Too many to mention ... Visit your local bookshop or see www.obrien.ie

101. Hope

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Contributor/Speaker:
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My Favourite Character in Faraway Home
Thursday 14th March 2013 by Support Pupils from Stratford National School in Rathgar, Dublin, describe the characters from Faraway Home who made the biggest impression on them.
My favourite character in Faraway Home is Peewee's Granny. She is not the strongest character, but she is my favourite.

She was described as 'a figure so small and withered that she was lost in the cushioned armchair, like a tiny baby in a big cradle.' She had beady eyes in a wrinkled face, framed by a few strands of thin silvery hair, through which pink scalp peeped. She went to Church every Sunday and Mrs Crawford said that her bark was worse than her bite. Peewee told Karl one day that his Granny hadn't gotten out of her bed at the previous night's air raid warning, saying that it would take more than Hitler to get her out of her warm bed.

I thought it was funny when she went to the football match and was cheering on Peewee and Wee Billy, and I like the way she called Judy 'the wean from Dublin'. After a while she became quite friendly with Judy and used to tell her about her days in the York Street linen mill.
by Adam, age 11

My favourite character is Judy. I just like the way she started out angry, not wanting to go to Northern Ireland. She didn't have a choice and she went after some persuasion and she got nicer as the story went on.

Her first experiences at the farm are awful. First she wrecks her good clothes in the chicken pen after not doing the job properly. Then she gets chased down the road by the so-called bull, which turns out to be Alice, one of the local Millisle cows. She goes back to the farm on her holidays to get to know Karl more, but by the time she gets there something has happened, the death of Karl's uncle. She has a good heart and is very kind to Karl through his experience of his Uncle Rudy dying at a concentration camp.

I think the most important moment in the book is when Karl, Judy and Peewee try to help Karl escape the farm and join the airforce. When Karl changes his mind they stop at the pub that Peewee's parents are in charge of and find out about Wee Billy dying. Judy helps Peewee and Granny through Wee Billy's death. She is a changed person.
by Alex F, age 12

My favourite characters from Faraway Home would have to be Karl Muller, Judy Simons and Leni (Karl's next door neighbour in Vienna).

Karl is my special favourite character because he is a kind, considerate and understanding person. He understood why he had to leave his parents, relatives and his dog Goldi behind in Austria. He understood why Mr and Mrs Gould adopted Rosa. There were a lot of people to take care of ... for instance, his family in Austria, Rosa and himself. He had some really tough times, like when Rosa broke her leg and smashed the china face doll to pieces and when he got a letter saying that Goldi had been destroyed, that his uncle Rudi had committed suicide and that his family were being deported.

My true favourite is Judy. In the course of the book, Judy developed her personality. She changed from being a stubborn girl who didn't want anything to do with the war to a girl who could change the world and who looked at life in a very different way. She wrote letters to Karl and signed herself 'Your friend' in the first one, but when Lisl was out of the picture she wrote 'Yours ever'.
Like Karl's headmaster, who was killed for sheltering Jews and gypsies, Leni risked her life to help Karl's family. She warned them about Kristallnacht, even though her husband supported the Nazis. During the war, she secretly slipped messages to Karl and to Karl's family. I think she was very truthful, trustworthy and loyal. I also think she was the kind of person you could depend on to help you through your problems.
by Anisha, age 10

We read a class novel called Faraway Home and my favourite character is Yakobi. I think he is a good character because he tries his best to help the refugee children not to worry about their families. For example, one night in the story there was an air-raid warning and all the children went downstairs to hide. People were playing cards, or games like 'I spy', and some were singing. But Yakobi noticed a little boy that was always crying. The children thought he was crying because he was missing his parents, and they were right. Yakobi went to this boy and started talking to him about things to take his mind off his family.

Another example of Yakobi's kindness is when Karl's little sister Rosa had an accident. On the way back from the hospital Karl sat in a cart beside Yakobi, and complained that he had to be a father and a mother to Rosa. Yakobi said that he was often angry himself, about everything that had happened to them. He told Karl that when he felt like that he played his saxophone. Karl asked if it helped. 'My sax was the only thing I was able to bring with me from home,' said Yakobi. 'But now we have to think about the future, not the past.'

That's why I like Yakobi. He is not selfish and he cares about other people, not just himself. He is different from anyone else.
by Leonid, age 11

I have just finished reading Faraway Home a class novel chosen by our Mr Hanley. There are lots of people in the story that I admired but I really admired Rosa, Karl's sister for being so cute, honest and a caring little child. I liked the way she was always smiling and cheerful, not knowing what was happening to her own family, to all her Jewish neighbours and to Goldi, her beloved dog.

Rosa is very young and she feels unhappy in her new family with the Goulds. She is homesick, even though they are very nice to her. By reading the book, I could understand her loneliness by being taken away from all her family and being transferd to another. I perfectly knew why she threw away the new doll that the Goulds had given her at the start instead of Mitzy, the doll that her parents had given to her back in Vienna.
by Beatrice, age 10

My favourite character would have had to have been Peewee. He was also not at home, like all the other refugees. Peewee seemed to be an easy person to get on with. Fortunately he made some refugee friends. It would have been hard for Karl to learn English without Peewee. He also helped the refugee camp football team with himself and his big brother Wee Billy, who coached the camp team. The first scene where Peewee appeared was with Judy, Karl and the cow. In this scene Judy was chased by the cow which she thought was a bull. I think that this was also the time when Judy started to mature. At this point Peewee, Karl and Judy all became good friends.

Peewee's grandmother began to like Judy. Peewee's mother liked and trusted Karl and Judy. So you see that Peewee's family play a big role in the story.

During the bombing of Belfast Peewee's brother was unfortunately killed. The loss of Wee Billy was an example of the terrible truth of the war. This would have happened to many families in the war.
by Timothy Alkin

Faraway Home is a novel set in the 1930s. Its story revolves around two children, Karl and Rosa Muller from Vienna, and their journey to Ireland. Their family sent them, as they knew the war was imminent. During the long and arduous trip, Karl befriended Eva. She's my favourite character.
A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Eva was thirteen, although she was very mature. Rather than dwelling on her own homesickness, she mothered the younger children to distract herself. Her advice was always good and she was a sympathetic listener.

When the refugees are working at Millisle Eva shows she is a loyal and supportive friend to Karl. She helps him when his little sister is injured. When Karl is obviously upset by a letter, bringing sad news of his family, she writes to another friend asking her to help comfort him.
If I was ever in such a situation Eva is the type of friend I would like to encounter.

I recommend this interesting and informative book to readers of all ages.
by Blaise, age 12

'Karl gazed at the rigid figures of his parents, trying to fix their image forever in his mind.' He was burdened with what seemed to him like the world on his back. His mind was always blazing with 'why's and 'how's.

Inside himself, he was in agony with the anguish of having to grow up so quickly, and the loss of his family. Put on a train to forget the awful blood sky of Kristallnacht, the journey to Belfast with his little sister Rosa just loaded the bombs on his mind.

Running away from the blinding sights and the loneliness of being ostracised, he was about to let go, fall like a bomb, but he always kept a stiff upper lip.

Inside, all his worries were being tossed onto a fire, hoping he would turn into ashes like so many innocent Jewish souls. He really grew up more than he knew. He held on. He never looked down.
by Stephanie, age 12

Contributor/Speaker:
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My Favourite Character in Faraway Home Thursday 14th March 2013 by Support Pupils from Stratford National School in Rathgar, Dublin, describe the characters from Faraway Home who made the biggest impression on them. My favourite character in Faraway Home is Peewee's Granny. She is not the strongest character, but she is my favourite.

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