The Devil's Arithmetic Ch 17-18

Why is Gitl telling Chaya a plan but not giving her any information about the plan?

• so if something happens to Gitl, she can remember, but not accidentally tell the plan

• Gitl does not trust Chaya

• the blokava told Gitl not to tell

• Gitl and Shmuel are not planning on taking Chaya with them for her own safety

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How is Fayge's choice not to follow the plan ironic?

• she decided not to go and everyone that went was hung

• she was too afraid to escape and that ended up saving her life (for a little while)

• she has a better plan that would have worked much better

• she folloed her own plan and was caught

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How does Gitl know their plan is ruined?

• Fayge tells her

• she is caught by blokava

• she hears gun shots

• she has a premonition

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Why isn't Gitl concerned that Chaya forgot her shoes outside?

• Gitl will just organize her another pair

• it isn't supposed to rain so they won't get ruined

• she can just get them in the morning

• they were the blokava's shoes

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How do Gitl and Chaya escape being caught?

• Chaya says she was lost

• Gitl said she had to go to the bathroom

• The blokava is sound asleep

• the officers are drunk

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What does this mean: "A simple bit of mathematics, like subtraction, where one is taken away from the top line becomes one added to the bottom"?

• when someone else is processed, it means another person gets to live another day

• when someone dies, others are dying with them

• when someone is processed, other people cannot die

• when someone dies, the officers are sad

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How does Shmuel act after he was caught trying to escape?

• shameful

• proud

• hurt

• dead

What happened to Fayge?

• she successfully escaped the camp

• she committed suicide by hanging herself

• she was shot with Shmuel

• she died of a broken heart in her sleep

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What happened to the blovaka?

• she got a promotion

• she got sent to a different camp

• she got sent to the ovens

• she lost another finger

What are the girls caught doing that leads to their deaths?

• litening to Chaya tell stories and not working

• stealing shoes from the blovaka

• stealing food from the kitchen

• talking back to an officer

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