Island on Bird Street Ch.1-8 Characters & Events

Who is the character that is hiding in 78 Bird Street because he escaped the selection?

• Alex

• Boruch

• The Gryns

• Bolek

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What did Alex's father teach him to do?

• Build a shelter in the factory

• Shoot a pistol

• Throw a knife

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

Who keeps a knife in their boot?

• Father

• Alex

• Boruch

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

Who is Alex's pet companion?

• Snow

• Gryn

• Boruch

• Mousie

Why is Snow helpful? Choose 2

• He warns Alex when the Germans are coming

• He helps Alex when he is lonely

• He is able to find food

• He whimpers when there is trouble

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CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

Who saves Alex at the selection?

• Boruch

• German soldier

• Father

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What is the bomb out shelter that Alex is hiding in?

• The ghetto

• 78 Bird Street

• The polish side

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What can Alex see from 78 Bird Street?

• All the Ghettos

• The bomb out building next door

• The Polish side

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CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.5.10

Who is the family that lived with Alex and father before the transports?

• The Gryns

• The Girns

• The Smiths

• The Boruchs

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

What happened to Alex's mother?

• She died at childbirth

• She went to visit friends in Ghetto A and never returned

• She went to Palestine to live with other family

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.1.1