Devil's Arithmetic: Chapter 15

Today we had a shortened hour due to Mass.  We had time to correct your answers from Chapters 13 & 14.  Next I gave you Chapter 15 questions to complete for tomorrow.

I WILL BE COLLECTING THESE QUESTIONS, 13-15 TOMORROW!  Make sure you complete all of them!

Devil’s Arithmetic
Chapter 15

• What does Rivka do to help when the Commandant comes?  Whom is she helping?
• What does Chaya do to help?
• What did their meals consist of?
• List at least 5 jobs the prisoners in the camp had?  Where was Chaya sent to work?
• What does the phrase “a nemer iz nishtkeyn geber” mean?
• Why were the people chosen at the end of Chapter 15?
• Why must the girls not use the word death or killed, but instead say chosen or processed?
• INFER: Why is becoming harder for Hannah to remember her modern life in New York?
• What happened to Rabbi Boruch, Fayge’s father?