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