Number the Stars Ch 13-14: Cloze Sentences

But the noise from Blossom, forgotten, unmilked, uncomfortable, in the

barn, had sent Annemarie _____out with the milking bucket. She need to be careful every time she goes out afraid of bumping into Nazi soldiers.

She handed the basket across. "Mama sent your lunch," she said, her

nervous voice ____ . "But soldiers stopped me, and they took your bread." She

didn't dare to tell him more.

The soldier tore the paper open while below him, on the ground, the

dogs pulled tightly and _____, pulling against their leashes. Their muscles were

visible beneath the sleek, short-haired flesh.

He gestured with the folded white cloth and gave a short, mean _____ laugh.

"At least she didn't stitch flowers on it."

She had known nothing of danger, and the soldier had been

amused by her.

Annemarie _____herself, with all her being, to behave as Kirsti would.

"Good morning," she said carefully to the soldiers.

They looked her up and down in silence. Both dogs were tense and

alert, The two soldiers who held the leashes wore thick gloves.

The hiding places are carefully _____, and often we pile dead fish on the deck as well.

Annemarie gave him a mean and disrespectul look. "You know we have no meat,"

she said ____________. "Your army eats all of Denmark's meat."

Annemarie burst out laughing. She looked at the tiny kitten, who was

shaking his head, ____ and annoyed at his wet whiskers as Kirsti kept trying to dip his

face to the water.

They don't stay at home _____handkerchiefs for their men."

That afternoon, Mrs. Rosen knocked at their door but didn't come

inside. Instead, she spoke for a long time in a hurried, _____voice to

Annemarie's mother in the hall. When Mama returned, her face was

worried.