The Devil's ArithmeticStudy Guide Chapters 11-15Name: ______

Date:______

Vocabulary Matching

______– German for “attention!”

______– Jewish ritual bath

______– German for “fast,” or“quick”

______– newcomers, the lowest of the low

______–hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jewish people

Reading Comprehension

1. Describe the conditions of the boxcars and the length of time spent in them.

2. Why is Hannah made to surrender her blue hair ribbons?

3. What does the woman guard in the blue dress tell them to do first?

4. Why does Hannah decide not to speak anymore about what she remembers about the Holocaust, especially the showers?

5. After her hair is shorn from her head, what does Hannah realize?

6. What command does Hannah impose upon herself to numb the shock?

8. After their heads are shaved and they survive the cold showers, where are they next sent?

7. What distressing information does the man who tattoos Hannah give her?

8. When Gitl tries to leave the barracks to find something to eat for the children, what does the young soldier tell her?

9. Why doesn't Gitl want Hannah to touch Tzipporah upon waking the next morning?

10. What instructions are the zugangi given pertaining to the bowls they are issued?

11. What message does the officer give to the newcomers after they have eaten?

12. Describe Rivka.

13. Describe what each letter or number means to Rivka. Write your answer below each one.

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14. Rivka shares the rules she follows to stay alive at the camp one day at a time. What at least THREE rules?

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B.)

C.)

15. What does Hannah dream of the night Rivka tells them the rules of the camp?

16. What is the signal for the young children that the commandant is coming?

17. What job does Hannah have in the camp?

18. Where does Gitl work in the camp and what does she learn there?

Literary Devices

19- 25. Verbal irony involves a contrast in what is said and what is meant. Situational irony occurs when what happens is different from expectations. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something a character does not.

Passage / Type of Irony / Explanation
“‘Down there!’ a soldier shouted, gesturing with his rifle. Part of the moon still hung in the sky, a pale halo over his blond head.”
“‘I’ll give them this!’ She couldn’t think who it was or what he was giving to whom.”
That is my daughter’s dress you are wearing, Chaya Abromonwicz. My Chaya. I brought it as a present for her in Lublin. “The same name, too. God is good. Your name means life.”

26-28.Euphemisms substitute unpleasant words or phrases with more acceptable ones. Explain them.

Word or Phrase Used / Is a euphemism for…
Pieces of drek, schmattes / Rags
Processed
Chosen
Organized

29. Why did the Nazis use euphemisms?

30. Why did the Jewsuse them?