Devil's Arithmetic Ch 11-16

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When Gitl tries to leave the barracks to find something to eat for the children, what does the young soldier tell her?

• That is Jew smoke.

• Learn to eat when it's given to you.

• They will get used to it.

• All of the above.

When Hannah tries to brush the fly away from Tzipporah the next morning,

• She finds out that Tzipporah died in her sleep.

• Gitl turns away and cries.

• the barracks guard tells her to leave her alone.

• none of the above.

Rivka tells the newcomers to use their Every Bowl for

• Washing

• Eating

• Drinking

• All of these

The Nazi commander tells the newcomers that they will

• never complain.

• be given small privileges.

• be given one attempt to escape.

• recite the Fatherland pledge daily at roll call.