After you were finished, you handed in Chapters 6-7 questions.
Finally you picked up your homework:
Chapter 8 & 9 questions/reading
Devil’s Arithmetic
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 8
- According to Fayge, what can Chaya expect a lot of at the wedding?
- What does Chaya tell Fayge that sets her at ease?
- What village is Fayge from?
- By researching AND using the context of the book, what is a shul?
- Infer from the reading:
- Army trucks are in front of the shul; the badchan says, “I see the Angel of Death,” what do you think is happening? Who are these people in the trucks?
- What year is it on the Jewish calendar? The Christian calendar?
- Chaya tells everyone of the pending danger. Summarize how does the Rabbi, Reb Boruch, respond?
Chapter 9
- For what reason does the colonel tell the Rabbi and the rest of the Jewish people before the shul they must go with them in the trucks?
- The badchan truly understands what is going on and mutters a few key, figurative phrases about the evil that is going on. Jot down three of them.
- Why does the Rabbi comply with the orders?
