Ch 9 Comprehension
Ch 9 Vocab
Ch 10 Comprehension
Ch 10 Vocab
Figurative Language
100

The name of Uncle Henrik's cow

Who is Blossom? 

100

To be ready to act; composed

What is poised? 

100
Booted men with gleaming hats show up at Uncle Henrik's house. 

Who are the Nazis? 

100

Walked slowly or with heavy steps because of exhaustion 

What is trudged? 

100

Surge of Sadness

What is alliteration?

200

The reason "Thor: the god of thunder" flees from Kristi while she is playing on the floor. 

What is Kristi tried to dress Thor? 

200
To carefully complete a task

What is deftly? 

200

The reason mama gives the soldiers to how "great aunt Birte" died.

What is typhus?

200

Repeating or happening over and over again

What is recurring? 

200

The bond of their friendship had not broken, but it was as if Ellen had moved now into a different world. 

What is a simile? 

300

Annemarie knows that Uncle Henrik and Mama are lying to her because

What is she has never heard of Great- aunt Birte?

300

Dryly or sarcastically 

What is wryly? 

300
Peter opens the book on the mantle and reads from this book in the Bible

What is Psalm?

300

arrogant, or overconfident in a manner to make someone else feel poorly about themselves

What is condescending? 

300

The car doors slammed. 

What is onomatopoeia? 

400

The casket rested on supports in the living room, people have gathered at Uncle Henrik's home, there are flowers on the table

What is the night of mourning? 

400

A word that describes a verb or an adjective

What is an adverb?

400

The reason "he who numbers the stars one by one" connects to the title of our novel study

What is God numbered all the stars in the sky, how much more does he know all the humans He created?

400

Slowly, sometimes, never, quickly, wispy

What is an adverb? 

400

Moved her wrinkled mouth like an old woman adjusting false teeth. 

What is simile? 

500

Ellen lets out a cry at the end of Ch 9 because she is reunited with Peter and _________? 

Who is her parents? 

500

Margaret __________ put the pink booties on the baby's feet. 

What is deftly? 

500

According to Ellen the ocean was too cold. To Annemarie, the sky was too big. And the _____ is too cold, too big,  and too cruel. 

What is the world? 

500

"Your puppy is hungry," the man said ______ as the puppy chewed on his shoe. 

What is wryly? 

500
From Ch 8: 

She attacked the old wooden floors with a broom. 

What is an idiom? 

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