2. What Did Hannah Think Was Not Fair?

The Devil’s Arithmetic

Chapter 3

1.  Vocabulary

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Plague 13
Exodus 13
Yarmulke 14
Haggadah 14
Cloy 16
Afikoman 16
Matzoh 16
Guffaw 17
Earnest 18
Elijah 19

2.  What did Hannah think was not fair?

3.  What did Hannah get to drink that caused her mother to protest?

4.  What does Grandpa Will mean when he says “a sacrifice unasked is so much the greater”?

5.  When they open the door for Elijah, it is a remembrance of a time when Jews were forced to open their doors. Why?

6.  When Hannah opens the door, what does she see?

Author’s Craft

What words and phrases does the author use to let the reader know Hannah is not happy or interested in this tradition and its rituals?

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