The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Movie Questions

1. What is happening to people in the streets?

2. What do the children’s father tell them?

3. What does Bruno’s father do?

4. What are the boys pretending to do?

5. What is the new area by their home like? How is it different from the city?

6. What does Bruno see when he looks out of the window? What does Bruno think it is?

7. What does Bruno want to do?

8. What do you think is wrong with the man who brings in the vegetables?

9. What does Bruno’s father say about the “farmers”? What does he say about his work?

10. What does Bruno want? Why does he want this?

11. What was Pavel’s career before?

12. What does Bruno find in the woods?

13. What does Shmuel ask Bruno for?

14. What is Gretel hanging in her room?

15. What does Bruno realize about the fence?

16. What does Bruno say about the smell from the chimneys?

17. What does Bruno and Gretel’s tutor teach them?

18. What is burning?

19. How does Elsa (Bruno’s mom) feel about what she learns?

20. What happens when Pavel spills the wine?

21. What does Gretel tell Bruno about the “farm”?

22. What does Bruno tell the officer?

23. What does the video say about the camps? Is what the video shows true?

24. What happened to Shmuel after Bruno lied?

25. What does Bruno’s father tell the children?

26. What does Bruno figure out that he can do? What do he and Shmuel decide to do?

27. What does Bruno see when he gets into the camps?