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The Devil's Arithmetic 15-16

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Hannah's camp job is to

a)

haul water in large buckets.

b)

spoon out the meager meals to the prisoners.

c)

scrub the walls, floors, and cauldrons.

d)

all of these.

2.

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

a)

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

b)

She gets to know what prisoners are from where.

c)

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

d)

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

3.

The Devil's Arithmetic is

a)

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

b)

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

c)

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

d)

all of these.

4.

Hannah feels that Revuen's choosing was her fault because

a)

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

b)

she could have thrown herself over him to hide him.

c)

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

d)

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

5.

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

a)

one of agreement.

b)

both c and d.

c)

we are all heroes here.

d)

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

6.

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

a)

far above all the girls' understanding.

b)

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

c)

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

d)

all of these.

7.

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

a)

riveted

b)

resolved

c)

hysteria

d)

superimposed

8.

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

a)

defiantly

b)

superimposed

c)

riveted

d)

eroded

9.

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

a)

riveted

b)

hysteria

c)

resolved

d)

eroded

10.

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

a)

hysteria

b)

defiantly

c)

resolved

d)

eroded

11.

Eventually, the picturesque shore was _________________ by the ocean tides.

a)

superimposed

b)

riveted

c)

resolved

d)

eroded