Characters
The protagonist of the story
Who is Rifka?
What Dr. Askin said Rifka had that would make her a good doctor.
What is compassion?
Before Rifka could get onto the train in Berdichev, she did this.
What is distract the Russian soldiers?
The HIAS women represent this theme.
What is kindness of strangers?
Why Rifka's head begins to itch at the end of the novel.
What is her hair growing back?
Who is Tovah, Rifka's cousin?
What happens when someone is removed from a country.
What is deportation?
After Rifka learned that Pieter had died, she did this.
Rifka distracting the Russian soldiers represents this theme.
What is courage?
The reason why Rifka isn't allowed to travel with her family to America from Warsaw.
What is ringworm?
Rifka's brother that escapes the Russian army to warn his younger brother that the army is coming to take him next.
Who is Nathan?
To have an effect on someone or something.
What is influence?
Who Dr. Askin and Mr. Fargate examines first on October 22nd.
Who is Ilya?
What is hope?
What Rifka notices on the girl's head on the train.
What is large, round sores?
The person Rifka catches Typhus from.
Who is the doctor at the Polish border?
To be constantly worrying or anxious.
What is fretting?
What happens after Rifka looks in the hospital window to see Mama.
What is she is chased away?
Rifka's grief over Pieter's death represents this theme.
What is journey?
What Rifka plans to do with her Pushkin at the end of the novel.
What is mail it to Tovah?
Rifka's three older brothers living in America.
Who is Isaac, Asher, and Reuben?
To be reciting a specific religious prayer.
What is davening?
What happened before the Star of David broke?
What is Saul and Ilya fight over the Pushkin?
Rifka helping Ilya in the dining hall represents this theme.
What is kindness of strangers?
Who helps Rifka when she is lost in Antwerp.
Who is a milkman?