READ THE LOST SMILE BY CHRISTIAN HOLZMANN AND ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS.

(They will help you understand the story)

1. What does Sarah ask her mother?

Why does everybody look so sad?
2. Why does Mr. Hewitt get angry?
Because Sarah and Ben laugh at something at school
3. What did Sarah’s father answer her?
I´m not sad, i´m just tired
4. Who is Sarah’s best friend’s name?
Ben is the best friend
5. What did Sarah dream about?
It was about the death, that cries black tears
6. How did Ben know what happened in Sarah’s dream?
Ben had the same dream
7. What did Ben hear in his dream?
“I am the lord of tears, and soon I will be the master of the world. Soon there will be no more
laughter and no more smiles. Soon there will only be tears”
8. What did the dream tell them to do?
“Go and find the Lord of Tears. And take away the mirror of Smiles”
9. Where did they walk to?
To the setting sun

10.What did Ben say about the place?

I´m cold and hungry and I don´t like this place

11.What was Sarah doing a little while later?

She was tuning the flute

12.What did the children see?

A woman on a broom

13.What was she doing?

Flying over their heads

14.What was her name?

Her name was Hilda

15.Who was Hilda?

She was a witch

16.Where did the Lord of Tears live?

He lives behind the Mountain of Misery

17.Who was Wilhelmina?

She was the head witch

18.What did the witch want from Ben?

She wanted music

19.What did they do when they took out their flutes?

They play music for the witches

20.What happened the next morning?

Hilda took them to the other side of the Mountain of Misery on her broom

21.How was the place?

It had a river, green grass, birds were singing and there were a lot of flowers

22.What did Hilda give them?

Hilda gave them each a small black stone

23.What happened with Ben’s flute?

The flute fell out of his bag and two little creatures stole it

24.What did Sarah suggest?

She suggested to play some music

25.Who were the two little creatures?

They were goblins

26.What did they see a few minutes later?

They saw an another goblin with yellow hat

27.What did he ask?

Are you sure your wat to meet the Lord of Tears?

28.When did Bill and Jill take the children?

That evening they took them to the Sea of Sadness

29.What did the children do?

They sailed for two hours and then stopped at the shore

30.What did they see?

They saw big rocks

31.What did the children ask the dwarf?

Who are you?, where are you?

32.What did the dwarf answer?

33.Who was Tom?

34.What did Sarah and Ben give the dwarves?

35.What could they hear?

36.What did the Lord of Tears whisper?

37.What happened when they started playing their flutes?

38.What did they see behind the Lord of tear’s chair?

39.What did the Lord of tears do?

40.What happened the next day?

41.What were her parents doing?

42.What did Ben find in his pocket?