The Devil's Arithmetic 15-16

Hannah's camp job is to

• haul water in large buckets.

• spoon out the meager meals to the prisoners.

• scrub the walls, floors, and cauldrons.

• all of these.

What main advantage does Gitl's camp job afford her?

• She can bring things back to the barracks from the piles.

• She gets to know what prisoners are from where.

• She always knows when a new shipment of Jews has arrived.

• The men and women can talk in the sorting shed and news can be spread.

The Devil's Arithmetic is

• the number of new Jews that arrive every day at the camp.

• the adding and subtracting of the processed and those that are left; one more day alive.

• the difference between the amount of food served and the amount left to clean up.

• all of these.

Hannah feels that Revuen's choosing was her fault because

• she should have warned him the officer was coming when he was on the hospital steps.

• she could have thrown herself over him to hide him.

• she didn't get him to the midden fast enough.

• she thinks she should have told the commandant he was her brother.

Rivka's response to Hannah's outrage that they should go down fighting is

• one of agreement.

• both c and d.

• we are all heroes here.

• it is harder to die this way than to go down fighting.

Fayge's story of the werewolf's heart full of pain is

• far above all the girls' understanding.

• meant to tell of the earth's wickedness and her pain at the loss of her father.

• is a strange tale to have been told by a rabbi.

• all of these.

The guest speaker ________________ the audience with his inspirational stories and jokes.

• riveted

• resolved

• hysteria

• superimposed

When creating a logo for her cosmetics company, Julie ___________________ an image of a flower over an image of a butterfly.

• defiantly

• superimposed

• riveted

• eroded

The steam from the hot bath quickly __________________ as soon as Nathan turned on the fan.

• riveted

• hysteria

• resolved

• eroded

Joshua stared at his teacher _________________ until she sent him to the principal's office.

• hysteria

• defiantly

• resolved

• eroded