The Devil's Arithmetic Chapters 11 - 16

What literary element does the author use in the following quote: "she could feel her tongue as big as a sausage between her teeth"?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

What does the woman take from Chaya to punish her for talking?

• Her shoes
• Her dress
• Hair ribbons
• Her food

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CCSS.RL.6.1

Why does Chaya decide to stop telling the Jews what is going to happen to them?

• She realized she was lying to them
• She didn't want them to know because they would decide to run
• They threaten to beat her until she died
• She realized there was nothing they could do and telling them steals their hope

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.W.6.9A

What happens as Chaya's hair is cut off?

• Her lice fall to the floor
• She loses her memories
• She comes up with a plan to escape
• She gives up hope

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CCSS.RL.6.3

What is unique about their leader (the one who is giving them instructions)?

• She is a female
• She has no shoes on her feet
• She has 3 fingers on one hand.
• She is a Jew

What is ironic about Chaya's choice of clothing?

• The previous owner of the dress was also named Chaya
• It was the dress she complained to Gitle about
• It was Gitl's dress
• It was the dress that she was wearing at Seder with her real family

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

When Gitl asks the soldier for food, how does he threaten her?

• He sticks a gun in her face
• He calls her a dirty Jew
• He tells her she will eat when she is told or she will be Jew Smoke
• He puts her on the list for the ovens

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

What does Chaya dream of?

• Burning alive
• Escaping the concentration camp
• Her dead parents
• The Seder before she walked through the door

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.W.6.9A

What happened to Tzipporah?

• Her body was burned in the oven
• She was shot in the back
• She died in her sleep
• She was able to escape through a hole in the wall

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.W.6.9A

According to the soldier, what can the Jews expect from now on?

• Lots of hard work.
• Bullets in the head
• Deportations
• Sleeping outside

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.6