Characters
Events
Literary Devices
Important Quotes
Miscellaneous
100
Protagonist of the novel
Who is Chaya?
100
Gitl slaps Hannah because of this.
She touches Tzipporah when she's dead.
100
This sentence contains this type of figurative language: "They crept to the door, and Hannah could feel her heart thudding madly."
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of "I'm tired of remembering."
Who is Hannah? She doesn't want to participate in the Passover traditions
100
The midden is this.
What is the dumpster?
200
This person ends up being Rivka
Who is Aunt Eva?
200
Hannah decides to stop telling people about what she knows about the Nazis because of this.
What is she doesn't want to cause them to lose hope?
200
This sentence contains what literary device? "“Not ever,” Hannah muttered to herself as she watched the smoke curling up, writing its long numbers against the stone colored sky.”
What is imagery, personification, or dialogue?
200
Identify the speaker and explain: “It is a brutal arithmetic”
Rivka- "Devil's arithmetic"- killing of Jews.
200
This person ends up escaping the camp.
Who is Yitzchak?
300
This character foreshadows events throughout the novel
Who is the badchan?
300
Identify a rule that Rivka teaches the girls.
What is stay away from Greek Jews, never go near Lilith's Cave, hide the children in the midden when the children come, etc.
300
Chosen is a ________ for murder.
What is a euphemism?
300
Identify the speaker and explain the significance of "Young girl in old girl disguise."
Who is the badchan? He recognizes Hannah as being Chaya.
300
The name "Wolfe" is an example of this.
What is irony?
400
She dies in a boxcar
Who is Rachel?
400
Gitl does this after the story is over.
What is move to Israel and start a rescue mission called CHAYA?
400
“'Dr. ..Dr. Mengele,” she said suddenly. “The Angel of Auschwitz,” As suddenly as she knew it, the reference was gone.'" This reference to someone in history is a(n)_______________.
What is allusion?
400
“We are all heroes here.” Identify the speaker and explain the significance.
Who is Rivka. She thinks all of the prisoners are heroes for living in the such harsh conditions.
400
Name three of Hannah's four new best friends.
Who are Rachel, Yente, Esther, and/or Shifre?
500
This child gets sent to Lilith's Cave.
Who is Reuven?
500
Describe the "sonderkommando."
What are people who take the bodies to the ovens?
500
“Maybe we could do something to help the blokova balance her hand. Three is such an unlucky number,” Shifre said. (p. 138) What literary device is this an example of?
What is a foreshadowing?
500
Describe the tone of : “You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.”
What is hopeful?
500
Both Aunt Eva and Shmuel know this song.
What is Dayenu?