Letters from Rifka

Who gave Rifka the Pushkin book that she writes her letters in?

• Cousin Tovah

• Bubbe Ruth

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CCSS.RL.5.1

What home country is Rifka's family escaping from?

• Poland

• Russia/Ukraine

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

Why did Rifka have to distract the guards at the train station?

• Only she could pass for Russian so her family could escape.

• So Saul could see that someone thought she was pretty

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CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.3

Why doesn't Rifka eat her breakfast?

• She is saving some for her brother, Saul, so he can keep his strength up.

• She has lost her appetite due to typhus.

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CCSS.RL.3.1

Why can't Saul see Mama in the hospital?

• He isn't her husband.

• He hasn't had typhus.

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CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.1

How does Rifka's "gift for language" help her in Poland?

• She is able to learn the language and speak with other people.

• She is able to keep her family safe.

Why does Rifka get left behind in Warsaw?

• She has contracted ringworm from the girl she helped on the train.

• The innkeeper's daughter called her a thief.

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CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1

Which phrase best describes Rifka’s relationship with Tovah?

• competitive and jealous
• friendly but distant
• warm and loving
• cold and uncaring

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.W.5.9B

At the steamship office, Rifka realizes that she got ____ from the peasant girl.

• A. shingles

• B. ringworm

• C. measles

• D. polio

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CCSS.L.5.4A

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

One of the HIAS workers arranges for Rifka to go to ______ ans live with a family while she gets treatment at a hospital for the ringworm.

• Antwerp, Belgium
• Paris , France
• Dandridge, TN
• Rome. Italy