Letters from Rifka

Vocabulary

100

Grandma in Yiddish.

What is Bubbe?

200

Russian empress/ruler.

What is a czarina?

300

Perukes.

What is a wig in Finnish?

400

Greenhorn.

What the name for someone who immigrates to America and doesn't know what a banana is (according to Saul).

Characters

100

The main character in Letters from Rifka

Who is Rifka Nebrot?

200

Rifka wrote all her letters to this person.

Who is Tovah?

300

Rifka's brothers.

Who are Nathan, Saul, Reuben, Isaac, and Asher?

400

When rifka lived in Belgium, who gave her treatments for her ringworm?

Who is Sister Katrina?

Settings

100

What is the name of the town Rifka is from?

What is Berdichev?

200

What is the name of the Belguim town Rifka stays in?

What is Antwerp?

300

Which country did the have to get fumigated in?

What is Poland?

400

What country does Rifka's family leave her alone in?

What is Belguim?

Plot

100

Rifka's religion.

What is Jewish?

200

Why did Rifka's family have to leave the Russia?

Rifka's brother, Nathan, left the Russian army and if the army found him, they would kill him or his family. The army wanted Saul to join.

300

The reason Rifka got ringworm.

What is she did the woman's hair on the train?

400

The length of Rifka's journey to America.

What is 1 year and 1 month

Historical Fiction

100

The person the book was based on.

Who is Karen Hesse's great Aunt Lucey?

200

What is the name of the group of people in Eastern Europe that were being discriminated in this book?

What is the Jewish people?

300

The symbol for the Jewish religion.

What is a Star of David?

400

Rifka is learning to speak what language in Belguim?

What is Flemish?