Number the Stars - Chapter 10

She heard - as if in a recurring nightmare - the pounding on the door, and then the heavy , fighteningly familiar staccato of _____ on the kitchen floor.

• tennis shoes

• boots

• brooms

• hammers

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Who was the officer asking when he said, "Who died?"

• Mama

• Papa

• Annemarie

• Uncle Henrik

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What is a synonym for the word "odd"?

• strange

• beautiful

• new

• tradition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

Why did the officer think it was odd that the coffin was closed?

• The custom is to pay one's respects by looking your loved one in the face.

• The custom is not to have the casket in the house.

• The custom is to meet in the church, not in the house.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

What did Mama say the reason was that Great Aunt Birte died?

• old age

• in a car accident

• she had a fever

• of typhus

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

What did the soldier do to Mama after she told him about the typhus germs?

• He opened the casket.

• He slapped her across her face.

• He arrested her for lying.

• He demanded that she open the casket.

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CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Peter read the ______ from the Bible.

• book

• chapter

• sermon

• psalm

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Why did Peter read the psalm?

• He read the psalm to the soldiers to prove to them that they were mourning.

• because he was bored

• to calm everyone down after the stressful encounter with the soldiers

• because the old man was dying

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.1

What did Annemarie describe as "too cold, too big, and too cruel?"

• the world

• the sky

• the army

• the ocean

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What happens at the very end of Chapter 10?

• Annemarie runs away because she is very scared.

• Peter opens the lid of the casket.

• The soldiers take everyone in the house away.

• Ellen's mom swims in the ocean she used to be afraid of.

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9